Human anatomy is an essential core knowledge in medicine, nursing, physiotherapy and in many other health professions. Anatomy is a vast subject requiring considerable feats of memory and an ability to understand structure in three dimensions. The enormous step up in knowledge can prove very challenging for new entrants to the health professions leading them to use surface learning techniques to encode and recall anatomical knowledge without really understanding it. This can lead to major gaps in anatomical knowledge in subsequent years and after graduation which undermines professional knowledge and practice. Most anatomical texts and online resources provide complex and detailed accounts of anatomical structure without ever really attending to the challenges of learning and mastering anatomy. We propose therefore to prepare a companion text that is designed to support health professional students’ ability to not only learn anatomy but also construct lifelong and robust understandings. We will use a foundational structural approach to anatomy, in which we layer knowledge and understanding from basic structure to more complex understandings using Bruner’s model of a spiral curriculum. All sections will make reference not only to anatomical structure and function but also the clinical relevance associated with that structure.
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