New Head of Anatomy

 Welcome to Tanya Shaw, the new Head of Anatomy and thanks to the outgoing head Richard Wingate for doing such a splendid job in office

Teaching Excellence Award to Dr Mandeep Sagoo

Congratulations to Dr Mandeep Sagoo of the Anatomy Department who has received a GKT Medical Education Teaching Excellence Award.

Mandeep teaches topographic anatomy across undergraduate programmes and is lead for the second year module in Synthetic Anatomy.

More Guardian league table success for Anatomy at King's

King's Anatomy and Physiology has risen to 4^th overall in the UK Guardian University league table for 2019.

This follows steady progress up the rankings in the last six years 

2018: 5^th
2017: 8^th
2015: 11^th
2014: 15^th
2013: 28^th

Bridge building

Thye Anatomy Department is successfully building important clinical links with surgeons and other doctors to combine knowledge and be at the forefront of training these clinicians. For instance, we are training GP's through KUMEC, the very GP's that are teaching our undergraduate medics on the 2020 curriculum. We are also starting a multidisciplinary surgical faculty that will undertake their own training in the anatomy department, e.g. practicing reconstructive techniques, teaching our students in surgical anatomy and offering surgical science projects. Contact me if you want to know more or be involved.

Why Look at the small stuff

I remember when I first wanted to be a doctor. Whilst all medical science interests me, it was always anatomy that was my focus of interest. I bought a light microscope from a shop in Slough and immediately went to work on looking at everything that I could. A still have a microscope on my desk. The subject of histology is a fascinating one; a view in to hidden world, secret gems of structure that not only look wonderful, but reveal and give clues to how structure relates to function. The anatomy department at Kings is still committed to delivering quality histology teaching and so it should. Please contact me if you want to know more. We have excellent histology facilities.

The importance of gross anatomy

I've been around quite a while now and heard the arguments come and go for the relevance of gross anatomy teaching, especially when it comes to cadaveric based teaching. We use cadavers at King's and we take our gross anatomical teaching seriously. It may be of interest that the Royal College of Surgeons has just increased its Part A exam from 45 to 75 anatomy questions. This is to address the obvious need for surgeons in training to have more anatomical knowledge and to place the emphasis on the important of anatomical knowledge.

NEW Sports Exercise degree coming soon

A brand NEW degree course starts at King's next year. The Anatomy Department will be teaching the vital anatomical knowledge for students on this course. Working with The Aerospace Department, we will are excited to be delivering anatomy to a sector of learners from ever diversifying disciplines. If you'd like to be involved with he teaching or want any more information then just drop me a line.