title: A core syllabus for the teaching of neuroanatomy to medical students.
abstract: There is increasingly a call for clinical relevance in the teaching of biomedical sciences within all health care courses. However, this presupposes that there is a clear understanding of what can be considered core material within the curricula. To date, the anatomical sciences have been relatively poorly served by the development of core syllabuses, particularly for specialized core syllabuses such as neuroanatomy. One of the aims of the International Federation of Associations of Anatomists (IFAA) and of the European Federation for Experimental Morphology (EFEM) is to formulate, on an international scale, core syllabuses for all branches of the anatomical sciences using Delphi Panels consisting of anatomists, scientists, and clinicians to initially evaluate syllabus content. In this article, the findings of a Delphi Panel for neuroanatomy are provided. These findings will subsequently be published on the IFAA website to enable anatomical (and other cognate learned) societies and individual anatomists, clinicians, and students to freely comment upon, and elaborate and amend, the syllabuses. The aim is to set internationally recognized standards and thus to provide guidelines concerning neuroanatomical knowledge when engaged in course development.
authors.affiliation: Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Museum Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3AX, Wales, United Kingdom.|Department of Anatomical Sciences, School of Medicine, St. George's University, True Blue, Grenada, West Indies.
authors.forename: Bernard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Moxham
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Medical Sciences, School of Medical Education, Newcastle on Tyne, NE1 7RU, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: McHanwell
authors.affiliation: Faculté de Médecine Paris Descartes, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, URDIA, EA4465, 45 Rue Saints Pères, 75006, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Odile
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Plaisant
authors.affiliation: NOVA Medical School NOVA University of Lisbon, Campo dos Martires da Patria 130, 1169-056, Lisboa, Portugal.
authors.forename: Diogo
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Pais
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum / Q000592:standards*; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D009445:Neuroanatomy / Q000193:education*; D013337:Students, Medical
keywords: anatomy; core syllabus; delphi panels; medical education; neuroanatomy