BACA
"Clinical Anatomy – should we really call it applied anatomy?"
The role of anatomy within the healthcare professions and other related areas is becoming ever important as advances in imaging, clinical care and other innovations are leading to significant potential changes in the way health care is practiced.
Historically, the British Association of Clinical Anatomists (BACA) has been at the forefront in the promotion of the importance of clinically applied anatomy, reflected in its recent on-line webinars and seminars initiated since the outbreak of the COVID pandemic. These have been used to illustrate the role of anatomy in a range of talks focussed on clinical procedures, education and other areas.
Education in undergraduate and postgraduate anatomy has had to evolved rapidly to address the significant restrictions that have arisen. Surgery is a good example of these changes, where clinically focussed anatomy is more and more a driver of the postgraduate assessments of the four Royal Colleges in the UK.
But this inevitably raises a fundamental question of What is Clinical Anatomy? Is this actually the right term to use to describe what is effective applied anatomy?
This presentation will hopefully generate discussion relating to the ongoing important role of the science of anatomy in the 21st Century and the focus on clinical need.
