There are many anatomy resources available on the web, often allowing students to see illustrated structures from any angle in three dimensions. As helpful as they are, they generally present structures in isolation, separated from adjacent nerves, muscles, and bones. While they may be a great aid for learning individual details, they tend to lose the inter-relationships that underly the physical exam, medical imaging, and diagnostic deductive reasoning. They are also limited in that they are illustrations, not the real thing. This can leave a gap in the understanding of clinical correlations, so essential to the practice of medicine. The videos on this site are designed to help students fill that gap by seeing real human anatomy in-situ. In some, users can click to look around a corner, retract a muscle, or reflect the neck and mandible to see the larynx with its functional relationships to the tongue and oropharynx. In addition to these intereactive videos, we have educational reasoning modules, built to help students develop their analytical reasoning skills to lay the foundation for future clinical reasoning ability.
Anatomy Interactive's founder, Dr. Mario Loomis, is a surgeon and professor of anatomy. He developed these interactive videos and analytical reasoning modules to help students understand complex anatomical relationships and the clinical scenarios associated with them. The material is designed as a supplement to traditional classwork, to help students fill in gaps by guiding them through the reasoning process at their own pace. Much of the videography, illustration, and animation in the videos and modules was done by Teresa Loomis, currently finishing a Bachelor's degree in nursing. If there are other areas of anatomy you would like to see explained in similar modules or videos, let us know at feedback@anatomyinteractive.com. No solicitations please.
