TEACHING of basic anatomy in Australia's medical schools is so inadequate that students are increasingly unable to locate important body parts - and in some cases even confuse one vital organ with another.
Several senior consultants have told The Weekend Australian they have been "horrified" to encounter final-year medical students who do not know where the prostate gland is, or what a healthy liver feels like.
OK class, let�s all find each others prostate . . .
part of the problem was the "fads and trends" now current in medical education, and that students were "not taught where the body parts are
What kind of �fad� is it that ignores some of the basics of medicine?
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