The challenges faced by anatomy departments in achieving this have been highlighted recently by Longhurst et al. ( 2020). While it has been relatively straightforward to replace live lectures by distributing lecture recordings, it is less clear how learning achieved in practical classes and dissections can be replaced online. This included our institution, where anatomy education involved lectures, prosection-based practicals and asynchronous online resources with dissection available in student selected components of the course. However, until the pandemic, the mainstay of anatomy teaching in the United Kingdom (UK) and Republic of Ireland (ROI) remained the use of cadaveric material in practical classes and dissections (Heylings, 2002 Longhurst et al., 2020). ![]() The utilization of virtual resources in anatomy education has grown significantly over the past two decades (Trelease, 2015). Our institution has been preparing online teaching based on the assumption of continued cancellation of large group F2F teaching in the 2020/21 academic year. ![]() Faculties raced to develop remote, virtual alternatives to teaching (Evans et al., 2020). ![]() On March 23, 2020, the UK government implemented a national lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which halted all face-to-face (F2F) teaching at UK based universities (UK Government, 2020).
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