Probing into clinical anatomy teaching of abdominal surgery by organ procurement and back-table operation

Abstract

The understanding of anatomical structures and their adjacent relationship is the foundation and key to the development of surgical skills and clinical thinking. In clinical teaching for residents and graduate students, we took the advantage of donor operations in organ transplantation and showed abdominal anal operations anatomical features and relationships through different view angles and compre-hensive ways. This new teaching approach was designed in accordance with processes of organ donation, procurement and back-table operation. The main contents included anatomy of abdominal wall layers, rela-tionships among abdominal organs, locations and courses of important structure, as well as medical humanistic education. In the context of organ donation becoming more and more popular and standardized after the cardiac death of Chinese citizens, this teaching approach is worth exploring. Key words: Abdominal surgery; Anatomy; Donation after cardiac death; Organ procurement and back-table operation