title: Traditions and peculiarities of clinical anatomy education in Russia.
abstract: The Russian experience in clinical anatomy education is described in this article. Such training is provided by the Department of Operative Surgery and Topographical Anatomy both during the pregraduate (undergraduate) period for medical students and in the postgraduate period for interns, residents, physicians, and surgeons of different specialties. The teaching of clinical anatomy in the pregraduate period occurs in combination with the study of operative surgery and follows the study of gross anatomy in the Department of Human Anatomy and microscopic anatomy in the Department of Histology, Cytology and Embryology.
authors.affiliation: Department of Operative Surgery and Clinical Anatomy, Orenburg State Medical Academy, Orenburg, Russia. ogma@mail.esso.ru
authors.forename: Ilia I
authors.initials: II
authors.lastname: Kagan
mesh_terms: D000715:Anatomy / Q000193:education* / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D012426:Russia; D013663:Teaching / Q000458:organization & administration*