26/26 edited chapters of the 3rd edition of, "A Textbook of
#Neuroanatomy
" by MA Patestas, AJ Meyer, LP Gartner has been submitted for preproduction to Wiley!
Super grateful to Maria & Les for taking me on board this project.
We make a great team! :)
The ABS' Provisional Mortality statistics have been updated, up to March 2023. These are the COVID-19 deaths. Each individual death is represented by a single point.
Can spot the point where "hybrid immunity" kicks in?
🧵
@jsmilges
Get someone to highlight the good comments and go back and read those. People are cruel, particularly when their name isn't next to the comments. I'd like to say it gets easier and those comments gets less but after 9 years I've found it to be the same :( Hope u get support :)
Maybe I've taught too much
#neuroanatomy
(who thought that could be a thing??!!) this semester...I'm seeing chicken heads every time I see a sagittal section of the thalamus and hypothalamus!
#ANHB2217
#IMED1001
#IMED3002
@DrKarenPinder
My younger cousins-in-law were asking why we were the only family masking at the funeral where hundreds of people were in a single room with closed doors on Monday. I explained just the neuro effects and they were horrified and scurried off. As a neuroanatomist, I can't ignore.
I've just been notified I've been nominated for an Excellence in Teaching award in the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at The University of Western Australia! 💪💪
Somewhere (many years ago) I've seen an image showing multiple motor fibres synapsing onto a single lower motor neuron. I cannot find it anywhere. Can anyone help (with reference too please)? 🙏
#NeuroTwitter
New paper reveals the 11 most common nerves injured during surgery and the associated operative procedures.
#AnatomicalVariation
is one of the four risk factors for iatrogenic nerve injury.
Hi! I'm an anatomy lecturer. You might know me from some of my Greatest Hits like:
"Yes, that a nerve."
"No, that's an artery"
"Have you read the lecture notes?"
"Did you read the textbook?"
"Did you come to class?"
and my favourite: "That's an anatomical variation!"
G'day, I'm a histology lecturer. You might know me from some of my Greatest Hits like "It's the pink thing, next to the purple blob", "You can't focus? Is your slide upside down?", "Ignore that, that's just an artefact" and "No, that's not a basophil".
How many
#cranialnerves
are there?
Anatomists in the years 200-1664: "7"
Anatomists in the years 1665-1778+: "9"
Anatomists since 1858 Gray's updated: "12"
Anatomists in 2019: "Should we kick olfactory, optic and accessory out?"
#neuroanatomy
Double mind blow in
#anatomy
lab with 1st & 2nd yr students who were *amazed* at how high the lung apex reached above the clavicles. I was shocked they didn't know until they showed me multiple diagrams in *good* textbooks. Medical illustrators & anatomists need to work together.
Finally some good news from 2020: myself and my awesome team including
@12ajPatel
received multiple individual & team excellence in teaching award nominations from UWA Faculty of Health & Medicine & Faculty of Science. Thank you for acknowledging our hard work 🙏🙏🙏
Announcing our two keynotes for "The Modern Anatomist: Where Are We Now & Where Are We Headed?" meeting of the Australian & New Zealand Association of Clinical Anatomists in Perth (Australia) on 4-6 December 2019:
Dr Claire F. Smith & Dr. Lisa Lee!
#ANZACA2019
@ANZACA_Inc
New day and this time I'm thrilled to be nominated for the Faculty of Science Excellence in Teaching Award for 2019! :)
@ScienceUWA
@ANHB_UWA
p.s. I don't believe in learning styles 🤣
Here's the frequent reminder that reading your slides is NOT teaching.
You are supposed to be telling a story.
Students can have an app read their textbooks aloud.
Less is more on slides, refer to textbook for more information.
Lectures are a guide, not a textbook.
Starting off my holidays celebrating my 16th wedding anniversary. It's not easy being married to an academic but Nigel has done a brilliant job! I would not be where I am today without him. 😍
And so my friends, this starts a social media hiatus of at least a week :)
#Celebrate
Got to say I don't get much love locally but our international
#Anatomy
community are the BEST DARN PEOPLE ON THE PLANET!!
I'm licking my wounds but you're all patting me on the back....you ROCK!
#BlessedAndThankful
Pro tip: If you're going to accuse an
#anatomist
of getting
#anatomy
wrong you better bring more to the table then, "I think you got it wrong" because I'm bringing knowledge, years of experience, peer-reviewed research and peer-reviewed diagrams to prove I'm right.
A student emailed me today thanking me from turning them from a "hatred of histology" to "i absolutely enjoy it a lot more and actually understand it now!" 😍😍😍
#JobDone
#ANHB2214
#Anatomists
on this platform make it feel like a Community of Practice.
Put
#anatomy
in your bio.
Follow and support each other.
Join anatomy associations.
Our discipline is alive and thriving, despite our staffing shortages!
🧠🦴💪♥️👁️
Was leaving coffee shop just now & I hear an "Excuse me", I turn around expecting I've left something behind & begin to apologise & student says to me, "No, I was in your class last semester & I just wanted to tell you in person it was the best unit I've ever taken!"
#MadeMyDay
Out of all my
#anatomy
texts and atlases, I think this new one by Profs Agur & Dalley is the most diverse.
A diverse range of skin colours is shown in the drawing and images.
A step in the right direction! 👏👏👏
#DiversityInAnatEd
#AnatPodcast
@RageSheen
Saw thousands of people on campus yesterday and I was the only one wearing a mask. I'm not apologising for wearing a mask and if you ask why I will tell you I'm saving my brain. I prefer it if people just don't say a word about it, to be honest.
I put an "Easter Egg" in my practical manual to see if the students were reading it thoroughly. The prize winner just came to my office and collected her prize! :) She had to find a particular piece of neuroanatomical artwork in the building and come and tell me where it was :)
Today was an eye-opening
#anatomy
lab for many of the students, they saw a dissected
#clitoris
for the first time. Many were shocked at how "big" it was and its homology to the male erectile tissue. Yes, the clitoris has corpora cavernosa just like the penis!
#cliteracy
Anyone know of older
#anatomy
textbook written by female anatomists?
Found this one by Mrs (should of been Dr!) Florence Fenwick Miller (1854-1936). Unable to be granted her degree but published an atlas in 1879.
Unsure of who drew the pictures? Check out her text on that!
More evidence that
#anatomy
instructors preparing more material (videos, PPTs) for undergrad students makes them happy but doesn't translate to improved student performance.
#AnatQ
What's the point? What improves student performance?
What I've learned after 9 yr of teaching at university, is that students value transparency & communication more then many of us realise. Best surveys of my teaching in past 12 months when I've been open and honest about EVERYTHING. Trust they won't hurt you & you'll see beauty.
Anatomy teaching time to medical students:
* UK averaged 85 hours in 2019 (Smith et al., 2021).
* Australian & NZ averaged 195 hours in 2018 (Trautman et al., 2019).
* USA averaged 129 hours in 2016/2017 (McBride & Drake, 2018).
#AnatEd
Next time someone is writing a neuro textbook can they bring me on board? I want to make them more inclusive by: removing eponyms, having diverse authors (not all men!), diverse images - not only slim, white people. So many developments in neuro to update too!
@DrKarenPinder
It doesn't hit them until it's one of their close relatives who dies. Then you see lots of people affected by that loss at the funeral. Yet most still not wearing masks/respirators. What is it about masks/respirators that make them so scary??
Richard E. Mayer fans, have you seen his recent paper summarising 10 evidence-based approaches for designing multimedia instruction in
#anatomy
.
DOI:10.1002/ca.23265
Whoever is teaching students that the brachiocephalic trunk is the first artery to branch from the aorta please STOP!!!!
The coronary arteries are the first to branch from the aorta.
The heart feeds itself first!
[end of rant]
#AnatEd
#MedEd
#vascular
After 8yrs teaching anatomy to 4,000 students across 37 anatomy units I've learned a few things:
1. Students will like most teaching interventions.
2. Most interventions won't improve student exam scores.
3. Top journals won't publish non-significant, single institution studies.
Good idea!
So
#AnatCommunity
, what do you think I'm known for?
I realise that I haven't actually published anything yet on what I think my niche is becoming....
Anyone else sit outside with their adopted emu to write lectures on the weekend? Eddie's a terrible assistant though, he fell asleep on the job!
#EddieTheEmu
#AustralianEducator
#Anatomist
First day of annual leave and I slept, did first bit of Christmas shopping & had lots of cuddles with my kids. I am exhausted after giving my everything and being marked as "meets expectations" and still on probation for tenure after 5 years. Will 2020 be the year to move up?