HM Inspector of Anatomy for Scotland: annual report 2024-2025

Appendix

Aberdeen

Anatomy Department:

• thoracotomy course
• flaps reconstruction – plastic surgery training course
• hands trauma – plastic surgery training course
• ENT Course
• gynaecology – surgical skills training
• neuropsychiatry
• spine emergency
• interventional pain workshop

Dundee

Dundee Institute of Health Simulation Surgical Skills Centre:

• principles of joint injection
• rectal prolapse surgical management
• temporal bone course
• rhinoplasty and septoplasty skills
• aesthetic facial surgery exercises by cadaver dissection
• emergency safe neck surgery by cadaver dissection
• laryngeal & pharyngeal laser course
• laparoscopic lower GI surgery course
• advanced laparoscopic in urogynae
• fundamentals of transurethral resection

Image Guided Therapy Research Facility:

• stroke thrombectomy simulation research and training
• imaging technique research using C-arm fluoroscopy, CT & ultrasound imaging,
• intravascular ultrasound imaging, photon counting detector scanning.
• imaging techniques used in cardiovascular and orthopaedic procedures.

Edinburgh

Anatomy Department:

• core surgical training
• hand & wrist surgery course
• orthopaedic trauma symposium

Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh:

• core skills in orthopaedic surgery
• complete ear surgery
• facial aesthetics
• surgical approaches to the spine
• knee arthroplasty (Stryker)
• organ retrieval masterclass
• head & neck resection and reconstruction surgery
• David Nott Foundation - hostile environment surgical training

Glasgow (abbreviated list)

Clinical Anatomy Skills Centre (Anatomy Department plus Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow):

• surgical skills for the emergency department resuscitation room
• pelvic course
• Royal Hospital for Children paediatric surgery
• knee robotic surgery
• renal and liver biopsy course for radiologists
• laparoscopic colorectal cadaveric course
• Stryker total knee replacement

St Andrews

Anatomy Department:

• intra-osseus injection course
• regional anaesthetics course
• trainee paramedics’ course

Additionally, requests are made from time to time by surgeons for access to a cadaver for the planning of a difficult surgical procedure – an excellent example of how a donated body can save a life!