Anatomy in Cambridge is part of the Tripos Sciences Exam within the faculty of biology and is still not considered part of a medical school education. Centered on the clinical anatomist and the prosector, the outwardly classical anatomy course has been recently revolutionized. All students dissect the whole body over 18 months (1 12 hours in the dissecting room). In addition, 28 lectures in clinical anatomy and 28 lectures in developmental biology and embryology are integrated with laboratory practical classes in radiological and surface anatomy and embryology (26 hours). Neuroscience (56 hours) and reproductive biology (18 hours) are totally integrated courses across the biology faculty. All of these classes are duplicated or triplicated due to a class size of 250 and inadequate class space. All the anatomical studies are supplemented by a supervision system that amounts to -40 hours personal tutorials on a 1-3 basis, requiring each student to write weekly essays over the 2 years.
Recently, the dissecting room, which is staffed by ltk-12 medically qualified doctors, has been integrated and supplemented with daily problem-solving exercises in clinical anatomy, which form the basis of some of the supervisions. Also, the introduction of modern technology, including laser disks, photo CDs, CD-Rom, and computer graphics, are supplementing the dissecting room classes. Clinical case presentations in Addenhrooke's Hospital are arranged each term by the clinical anatomist. A selected number of third-year students (34) take Part I1 "research" options in anatomy, one unit centered around HIV, and the other, experimental neuroscience and developmental biology.