Fasel J H
Department of Morphology, University Medical Center, Geneva, Switzerland.
Surg Radiol Anat. 1996;18(2):143-6. doi: 10.1007/BF01795237.
The amount of time assigned for teaching anatomy to medical undergraduates has been drastically reduced in all countries of the world during the sixties. This restriction has intensified the debate about the contents to be taught. The present study is intended to be a contribution to defining, against this background, a "tronc commun", a basic stock of anatomical knowledge that should be required from every medical student, whatever clinical speciality he may eventually engage in. The criterion proposed is the need of anatomical knowledge in general medical practice. With regard to the veins, the following conclusions have emerged from a questionnaire directed to general practitioners: 1) 92.8% of the vessels were agreed upon by the physicians asked. 2) General medical relevance was granted to 9.6% of the vessels mentioned in the international anatomical nomenclature. These results, which are in accordance with those recorded for the other chapters investigated so far, suggest that an adaptation of the amount of information taught to the time disponible in our days is possible, without endangering the basic knowledge necessary for general clinical practice. But the results also show that any reduction beneath the time necessary for teaching these notions jeopardizes the fundamental education indispensable to every physician. Thus, they clearly contradict tendencies considering that anatomy has become a branch that can be neglected in modern medical curricula.
在六十年代，世界各国分配给医学本科生解剖学教学的时间都大幅减少。这种限制加剧了关于教学内容的争论。本研究旨在在此背景下，为确定一个“共同主干”做出贡献，即每个医学生无论最终从事何种临床专业都应具备的基本解剖学知识储备。提出的标准是一般医疗实践中对解剖学知识的需求。关于静脉，通过向全科医生发放问卷得出了以下结论：1）92.8%的血管被受访医生认可。2）国际解剖学命名法中提及的血管有9.6%具有一般医学相关性。这些结果与迄今为止对其他章节的记录结果一致，表明根据如今可利用的时间调整教学信息量是可行的，而不会危及一般临床实践所需的基础知识。但结果也表明，任何低于教授这些概念所需时间的减少都会危及每个医生不可或缺的基础教育。因此，它们明显与认为解剖学已成为现代医学课程中可被忽视的分支的观点相矛盾。
