« Du pain sur les planches »…

All our colleagues are unanimous: the anatomists were the most prestigious teachers of their preclinical curriculum. Our prestige, our durable impact on young students are partially based upon the fact that anatomy is the most “medical” discipline among all the lectures given in the first year(s) of medical curriculum. But the respect of our students is due in a large way to the quality of our educational methods based on lectures at the blackboard with pieces of chalk. A long preparation is required to achieve excellence and provide lectures melting science and art, inviting students to learn and understand with pleasure the human body on which they will practice up to date medicine. Training of anatomists requires long preparation in their own institutes as well as in common sessions organized at the Saints-Pères Institute of Anatomy of Paris, a mythic place of anatomy in France.