ANATOMY BY WHOLE BODY DISSECTION COURSE – Post-graduate Students in Medicine (WBD-MS)
This course is available for postgraduate medical students enrolled in the Master of Surgery (by coursework) Degree Course at the University of Sydney.
This course has been recently approved by the Board of Studies, of the University of Sydney. The inaugural course will commence on Monday 6 August 2012.
The WBD-MS Course is composed of four Units of Study (SURG5027, SURG5028, SURG5029 and SURG5030) which are conducted in serial fashion.
Schedule
The Schedule of Dissection for those who will be enrolled in the course can be found below:
Download schedule document (PDF - 75KB)
The course will be conducted all day on Mondays/Tuesdays/and Wednesdays of each week for 12 weeks as shown in the Schedule. The 34 days of dissection of the course (i.e. a possible 272 hours of dissection) will constitute the 4 Units of Study (i.e. SURG5027-30). These Units of Study are combined into WBD-MS and will generate 24 Credit Points of the 48 Credit Points required for the award of the MS Degree. Enrolments will only be accepted for the full 12 weeks of the course.
The full details of the four Units of Study comprising the WBD-MS Course taken from the Surgery Handbook can be accessed by following:
http://sydney.edu.au/medicine/surgery/postgraduate/coursework/units-of-study.php
It is possible to complete the Master of Surgery Degree (by coursework) by completing the “Surgical Anatomy Stream” of study. The full details of the Surgical Anatomy Stream (and WBD-MS) requirements, taken from the Surgery Handbook, can be accessed by following:
http://sydney.edu.au/medicine/surgery/postgraduate/coursework/stream-requirements.php#SAS
Methods
Dissections will follow Cunningham’s Dissection Manuals (Romanes GJ, Cunningham’s Manuals of Practical Anatomy, Vols 1-3, 15th Edition, 1986, Oxford Medical Publications) available from the Coop Bookshop. Candidates will also be expected to be familiar with Last’s Anatomy 9th Edition (McMinn RMH, Last’s Anatomy Regional and Applied, 9th Edition, 1994, Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh) also available from the Coop Bookshop. This is the edition of Last approved by the RACS and has the RACS logo on the back cover.
Process
Candidates in the course will dissect in groups of 6 or less per cadaver. Specialist surgeons will act as Tutors and Supervisors especially when their areas of interest and expertise are being dissected. Thus the course will have a strong clinical and surgical emphasis. Weekly viva voce wet specimen examinations will be held. There will be a Pre-course practical test and an End-course summative wet specimen practical examination. The course will be coordinated by Professor George Ramsey-Stewart, Professor of Surgical Anatomy, University of Sydney.
The course will be run along similar lines to the Elective “Anatomy by Whole Body Dissection” Course (AWBD) for Medicine 3 students held at the University of Sydney over the past three years. Details of this medical undergraduate course can be accessed by following:
http://sydney.edu.au/medicine/anatomy/current-student/whole-body-dissection/index.php
Contact
Full details of the proposed postgraduate whole body dissection course (WBD-MS) and the method of enrolment can be obtained from:
MS Administration
The overall organiser of the course:
Professor James May
Coordinator of Postgraduate Surgical Studies, University of Sydney