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Anatomical Variations: How Do Surgical And Radiology Training Programs Teach And Assess Them In Their Training Curricula, Athanasios Raikos, Janie Smith
Anatomical Variations: How Do Surgical And Radiology Training Programs Teach And Assess Them In Their Training Curricula, Athanasios Raikos, Janie Smith
Janie Smith
Sound knowledge of anatomy and anatomical variations plays an integral role in surgical and radiology specialties. This study investigated the current teaching and assessment trends on anatomical variations in various surgical and radiology specialty training curricula in Canada and Australia. A survey was sent to 122 Program Directors and Chairs of specialty committees in Canada and Directors of Training/Education in Australia of selected surgical and radiology specialties. A total of 80.7% of respondents report that their training curricula include anatomical variations. The highest rated classes of variations included in the curriculum are arterial (76%), venous (68%), followed by organs (64%). …