Wednesday 15^th-Friday 17^th July 2015, BT Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh

The conference opened on Wednesday afternoon with a thought-provoking Lord Cohen Lecture from Prof Steve Peters of @chimpmanagement discussing his work on optimising the performance of the human mind. I then chaired an interesting parallel session on interprofessional education and simulation.

The anatomy themed parallel session on Thursday included talks on 3D printing of anatomical models by Nick Tollemache @ntollemache from Brighton and Sussex Medical School, followed by talks on current issues surrounding anatomy knowledge and its place within the medical curriculum at the Medical Schools of both Exeter University and St George’s, University of London. I presented two posters on our work concerning Artatomy @artatomy and social media in anatomy learning and teaching in the chaired poster session on Thursday evening. Undergraduate MBBS project student Joseph Hutchinson @joe_hutch presented a poster of our work outlining development and evaluation of our 2D drawing and 3D modelling online interactive video tutorials.

I presented a talk on our work investigating reciprocal transitions in understanding between 3D anatomical structures and 2D clinical images during the parallel session on Friday morning that also included a similarly themed talk involving innovative artistic learning methods by Nichola Robertson @nich_rob from the Art and Anatomy @artandanatomy group at Edinburgh University Medical School.

The conference closed with a venue-appropriate plenary “Scoring with education – reflective practice in international sports medicine” by Dr James Robson, Chief Medical Officer and Head of Anti-Doping, Scottish Rugby Union.

You can see my #asmeasm2015 tweets from @dr_keenan on Twitter and my conference story is here: storify.com/dr_keenan/asme-asm-2015.

Dr Iain Keenan, School of Medical Education