an@tomedia

A New Approach TO Medical Education: Developments In Anatomy

About the Authors

  • an@tomedia™ was produced by the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, The University of Melbourne, Australia.

Associate Professor Norman Eizenberg

Dr Eizenberg (MBBS) is Associate Professor in the Centre of Human Anatomy Education at Monash University, Adjunct Professor of Anatomy at the University of Notre Dame and Honorary Associate Professor at The University of Melbourne. He is also a general medical practitioner and project leader of an@tomedia™, prime author for all perspectives and responsible for the Regions perspective. Dr. Eizenberg coordinates anatomy teaching programs for medical students as well as for surgical trainees. His major areas of research and publications are in medical education and in anatomical variations. He is currently an anatomy examiner for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and for the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists. Dr. Eizenberg was awarded the 2000 Universitas 21 teaching fellowship for educational innovation, in recognition of his work on an@tomedia™.

Associate Professor Christopher Briggs

Dr. Briggs (DipEd, BSc, MSc, PhD) is Associate Professor and Deputy Head of the Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology at the University of Melbourne. He is also a forensic osteologist, and has a PhD in exercise physiology. His major academic role is coordinator of the anatomy teaching program for physiotherapy and science students (since 1982), while his major role in an@tomedia™ is coordinator of the Systems perspective and terminology editor for all perspectives. Dr. Briggs is also responsible for postgraduate teaching of anatomy to manipulative physiotherapists. His major areas of research and publications are in functional and applied anatomy and in forensic anthropology.

Dr. Priscilla Barker

Dr. Barker (B.App.Sci (Physio), PhD) is Senior Tutor and Prosector at the University of Melbourne. Her major academic role is coordinator of dissections for all courses, while her major role in an@tomedia™ is coordinator of the Dissection perspective as well as supervision of images for dissection, systems and regions perspectives. Ms. Barker is involved in teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students in physiotherapy and science. Her major area of research and publications are on the lumbar spine and its fasciae.

Professor Ivica Grkovic

Dr. Grkovic (MD, MSc, PhD) is Professor and Head of Anatomy at the University of Split, Croatia and an Honorary Senior Fellow at the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, The University of Melbourne. He is a qualified medical practitioner with a Masters degree in radiological anatomy and a PhD in neuroscience. His major academic role is coordination of the anatomy teaching programs for medical and health sciences students while his major role in an@tomedia™ is coordination of the Imaging perspective, including supervision of images. His major areas of research and publications are in the autonomic nervous system and neurobiology.

Anatomedia authors

 

Credits

Content Developers
Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology, University of Melbourne

Principal Authors

Norman Eizenberg
Christopher A Briggs
Priscilla J Barker
Ivica Grkovic

Contributing Authors

Alex Pitman
Craig G Adams
Michael Murphy
Priti Pandey

Content Contribution

Henoh Dolezal
Zdenek Dubrava
Jeremy Grummet
Marius Fahrer
Gerard Ahern

Dissection

Priscilla Barker
Matt Jackson
Kattharine Guggenheimer

Digital Imaging

Stuart Thyer
Priscilla Barker
Emily Brink
Diana Keshtiar
Belinda Robinson
Henoh Dolezal
Jacinta Le Page
Kate Hatzopoulos

Illustration

Priscilla Barker
Sian M Fairbank
Quang Minh Phan
Diana Keshtiar
Ivica Grkovic
Belinda Robinson

Photography

Stuart Thyer
Michelle Gough

 

   

Software Developers

Software Development Management

Ric Canale

Graphic Design

Gavin Leys

Programming

Daniel Robertson

Graphic Design Supervision

Chris Hanger

Programming Support

Gordon Yau

Interface Design

Chris Hanger
Gavin Leys
Matthew Riddle
Daniel Robertson

Programming Supervision

Matthew Riddle

Audio Engineering

Russell Evans

Software Testing

Daniel Jones
Ashley Freeman
Tina Bryant
Katharine Guggenheimer
Sarah Williamson
Jacinta Le Page

Video Engineering

Russell Evans

Web Site Development

Cathy Garrivan
Gavin Leys
Matthew Riddle
Daniel Robertson

 

Quicktime VR

David Adam

   

Clinical Consulting

G Ian Taylor
Maurice Brygel
Jeremy Grummet
Peter Danne
Finlay Macrae
Joe Tjandra
Mathew Lynch
Karl Alexander
Jeff Wassertheil
Gerry Ahern
Mahadev Krishnan
Dinesh Sivaratnam
Paul Sparks
Stephen Parnis
Afif Hadj
John Beynon
Robert Heng
Peter Dwyer
Helen O’Connell
Tony Costello
Anna Rosamilia
Don Murphy
Paul Rosenberg
Fiona Stewart
John Crock
Robert Marshall
Vernon Marshall
Andrew Rotstein
Geoffrey McColl
Martin Richardson
Christen Barras
Warren Rozen
Adina Kleiner
Tony Penington
Paul Soeding
Hiroo Suami
Wei-Ren Pan

Research Assistance

Fiona Lee
David Topchian

 

Educational Consulting

Cyril Driver
David M Kennedy

 

Editorial Consulting

Marius Fahrer
Colin Wendell-Smith
Gerry Ahern
Jenny Hayes
Claude Fahrer

 

Evaluation

David M Kennedy
Gregor Kennedy


Terminology Editor

Christopher Briggs

Script Editing

Kate Sumner

Testing

Daniel Jones
Daniel Robertson

 

Special Thanks

Provision of images

Jim de Jong
Robert Heng
Olivia Morris
Michael Fanatzis
Sean Mackay
Barry O’Reilly
Afif Hadj
Martin Richardson
Rathan Subramaniam
Andrew Rotstein
Andrew Bonollo
John Gelman
Simon Knight
Fred Daniel
David Webb
Bill Fleming
John O’Donnell
Simon Banting
Robert Gibson
William Edwards
Andrew Beischer
Phillip Slattery
John Crock
John Vrazas
Monica Pahuja

Ray Crowe
John K Stanley
Tony Sobol

Isolated dissections

Scott Robbins
Erica Livett
Marius Fahrer
Lea Goh
Simon Rosalie
Balvindar Kaur
Priscilla Barker
Christopher Briggs
Scott Robbins
Lauren Richardson
Erica Livett
Marius Fahrer
Kimberly Norton-Old
Katharine Guggenheimer
Jacinta Le Page
Monty Frankish
Lily Shelton
Lea Goh
Simon Rosalie
Balvindar Kaur

 

Prototype drawings

Terry Wu
Yun Fan Lu

Prototype design

Darren Williams
Richard Fox
Kerry Butcher
Peter Blecher
Dan Eaves


Research assistance

Fiona Lee
David Topchian
Tina Bryant

Administrative Assistance

Julie Carter
Sarah Williamson

 

 

Grant Acknowledgements

CUTSD (Committee for University Teaching and Staff Development; formerly CAUT)

The University of Melbourne (T&L(M&ET)C; Teaching and Learning Multimedia and Educational Technology Committee)

Faculty Information Technology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne

 

Acknowledgements

Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology, The University of Melbourne

Learning Environments, Information Services, The University of Melbourne

Department of Surgery, Royal Melbourne Hospital

Department of Radiology, Royal Melbourne Hospital

Diagnostic Imaging, Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute

Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine

The Visible Human Project (National Library of Medicine)

Biomedical Multimedia Unit (University of Melbourne)

Cardiology Unit, Monash Medical Centre

The Radiology Department, Ballarat Health Services

Department of Radiology, Western Hospital

 

Awards

Awarded  'Best CDROM' for an@tomedia™: Back & Abdomen at the 1999 ASCILITE  (Australian Society for Computers In Learning In Tertiary Education) Awards.

Awarded 'Best paper' for 'An evaluation of design factors in interactive multimedia' (D. Kennedy, N. Eizenberg, G. Kennedy) at the 1999 ASCILITE conference (Brisbane).

Awarded "Best General Multimedia" for An@tomedia: Back & Abdomen CD-ROMs at the 2003 ATOM Awards (Australian Teachers of Media).

Awarded "Best Tertiary Teaching & Learning Resource" for An@tomedia: General Anatomy CD-ROM & Book at the 2008 AAEEP (Australian Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing) Awards .

Awarded "Best teaching & learning package in tertiary education" for "An@tomedia: General Anatomy CD-ROM & Book" by Australian Publishers Association in 2008.

International finalist for "Best multimedia" for "An@tomedia: Pelvis CD-ROM" by British Medical Association in 2008.

Atom Awards, 2003
ATOM Awards, 2003

 

Anatomedia development team, 2001

 

Matthew Riddle (programming)Gavin Leys (graphic design)Stuart Thyer (photography & digital imaging) Stuart Thyer (photography & digital imaging) Chris Briggs (author-systems) Chris Briggs (author-systems) Priscilla Barker (digital imaging & author- dissection) Priscilla Barker (digital imaging & author- dissection) Daniel Roberston (chief programmer) Daniel Roberston (chief programmer) Gavin Leys (graphic design) Ric Canale (multimedia) Norm Eizenberg (project leader & author- regions) Matthew Riddle (programming) Ivica Grkovic (author- imaging) Daniel Jones (testing)