Omar Habbal

The State of Human Anatomy Teaching in the Medical Schools of Gulf Cooperation Council Countries Present and future perspectives “Anatomy is a science and it owes it to the practice”…. Anon.

Available literature on medical education charts an emerging trend in the field of anatomy. In the past decade, assisted by innovations in informatics and the paradigm shift in medical education, the hands-on experience of cadaver dissection has progressively becoming a relic of the past. Within the context of the situ …

“Between a Rock and a Hard Place”: The discordant views among medical teachers about anatomy content in the undergraduate medical curriculum

The last two decades of medical education have been marked by a persistent push towards curricular reform. Anatomy as a discipline, the unshakable foundation of medical teaching for hundreds of years, has been at the centre of this development. Although it is widely agreed that for doctors to be competent, they need an …

Anatomical Research: Misconceptions and opportunities

The Science of Anatomy: A historical timeline

Students’ Perceived Benefits of Integrating a BSc in Health Sciences within a Medical Degree at Sultan Qaboos University

Objectives: After completing the pre-clinical phase of a Doctor of Medicine (MD) curriculum, undergraduate medical students may choose to add a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in health sciences to their MD degree. Limited data exists on the motives behind students’ decisions to undertake such intercalated degrees. He …