Anatomy education for medical students in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland in 2019: A 20-year follow-up.

ABSTRACT: Anatomical education in the United Kingdom (UK) and Ireland has long been under scrutiny, especially since the reforms triggered in 1993 by the General Medical Council's "Tomorrow's Doctors." The aim of the current study was to investigate the state of medical student anatomy education in the UK and Ireland in 2019. In all, 39 medical schools completed the survey (100% response rate) and trained 10,093 medical students per year cohort. The teachers comprised 760 individuals, of these 143 were employed on full-time teaching contracts and 103 were employed on education and research contracts. Since a previous survey in 1999, the number of part-time staff has increased by 300%, including a significant increase in the number of anatomy demonstrators. In 2019, anatomy was predominantly taught t

SUBMITTER: Smith CF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9786311 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature