Anatomy Real

We feel extraordinarily privileged to be able to offer this amazing opportunity. Explore and examine REAL ANATOMY, using a variety of previously dissected CADAVER SPECIMENS, working in a university dissection laboratory under the guidance of expert demonstrators.

What this course offers:

2 days in the lab looking at the skeleton, muscles and other vital structures
2 days in the lab, a month later, looking at the visceral organs and nervous system
Lots of time for informal discussions and questions about all the things you are seeing, holding (if you want to) and many of those things you've wondered about
Time to see, in true 3-d, what you do know and fill in the gaps of what you're less sure about
The chance to explore:

individual specimens, hands on and up close (or as close as you choose to get anyway!)

why the bones have all their bumps and groves, how they fit together

exactly how different muscles and organs lie in relation to each other

how the nerves and vessels travel through the muscles and organs

what the different fascial structures look like

a variety of our unique anatomical features

This course will not lecture you with information or require copious note taking (although we hope that we may occasionally say something you may consider interesting enough to write down!). It will test and challenge your knowledge to help you piece together what you already know about while it fills in any gaps. Many past students have said it is helpful to do a little review of the subject before they come.. Maybe not as many actually have but if you can find the time it does make the experience even more worthwhile!

Part 1 - Two days on THE MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM

Day 1 - Appendicular skeleton: examination of the bones, muscles, vessels, nerves and additional anatomical features of the upper and lower limb

Day 2 - Spinal column and pelvis: examination of the bones, muscles, vessels, nerves and additional anatomical features of the spinal column and pelvis

Part 2 - Two days on THE VISCERAL ORGANS

Day 1 - Boundaires of the cavities of the trunk, basic set up for blood and nerve supply, organs of the thorax, organs of the abdomen, fascial links and the importance of the peritoneum

Day 2 - The organs and set up of the male and female pelvis and the brain and spinal cord.

For the last part of the second afternoon we typically incorporate a trip to the Gordon Museum, a pathology museum not usually open to the public, which has a huge and fascinating array of pathological specimens.

Note: The two parts of the course can be taken independently.

Should I do this?

Where else can you get this unique mixture of intensely practical, 3-d, hands on true understanding of our anatomical brilliance? Taught with reference to our work as CAM and health practitioners? With the opportunity to ask as many questions as you like?

This course will be presented by Caroline Barrow and demonstrators from Kings College University. Please note the course is not affiliated to the university in any other way.

Apart from commenting that it is helpful to do some preparatory review before you come, past students have also said:

'I think the course is very well laid out - I thoroughly enjoyed it and felt it was a very valuable experience'

'Your enthusiasm was really motivating. Well worth the money!'

'The opportunity to explore the Gordon Museum was excellent'

'An excellent 4 days! I am now much clearer in 3D terms and have much more inspiration for finding ways to learn this stuff.'