The study of structure of the human body is being sidelined in medical courses, warns Bernard Moxham
Prof Chris Ward is right to point out that “softer skills” in the medical course cannot be readily learned in the classroom (Letters, 4 July).
However, the opinion that instead of “memorising lots of anatomy” the subject should be learned as it becomes clinically relevant, may speak of the medical course in the very dim and distant past but not of the present.
