Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation

Awards, Reviews, and Comments Book

Ronald A. Bergman, PhD
Adel K. Afifi, MD, MS
Ryosuke Miyauchi, MD
Contributing Computer and Graphics Specialists:
Julie L. Bates
Erin L. Berg
Teresa Ann Knutson Choi
Dawn M. Finney
Robert D. Lelonek, Jr.
Paul C. Reimann
Peer Review Status: Internally Peer Reviewed

• 2000 - Schoolzone

  Virtual Hospital's "Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation" has been highly rated by Schoolzone's panel of 400 expert teachers. This is in recognition of the fact that it is a good educational site: useful for teaching and learning and easy to navigate.

• Los Angeles Times - September 16, 2003

  "None of us is alike inside our bodies, which should come as no suprirse, since people are plenty different on the outside. Why should variability, like beauty, be only skin deep? Yet most anatomy textbooks don't discuss this kind of variation...says [Ron] Bergman, who's been compiling a compendium of these differences for decades. Read about it in Bergman and colleagues' online book at www.vh.org/providers/textbooks/anatomicvariants/anatomyhp.shtml"

• July 17, 2004 - Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation - "I visit this site on a weekly basis and send my students to it to find out about variants found during dissections. It is very easy to navigate and has excellent references to ancient publications." - E.B., Belgium
• July 10, 2002: ( Human Anatomic Variation) - "Your site has a lot of wonderful information for teachers. Because of great information on your site we have linked it to on our teacher resource page." - N.R. of Education Credit Union
• June 24, 2002: (Human Anatomic Variation) - "I value the information that I can retrieve from this site to pass on to my daughter to learn from others with the same circumstances." - D.S.
• August 24, 2001: (Human Anatomic Variation) - "This site helped me quite a bit by providing free glossaries on-line for me to use as a reference for school." - M.G.
• July 29, 2001: (Human Anatomic Variation) - "I think this webpage is a reliable and very informative source." - D.Y.
• March 29, 2001: (Human Anatomic Variation) - "I like the information provided and it's easy to navigate through the site." - L.E.B.
• February19, 2001: (Human Anatomic Variation) - "I like your website very much. One can reach the knowledge he wants easily. The contents of the pages are also very satisfactory." - P.K.
• January 31, 2000: (Human Anatomic Variation) - "Excellent! The Virtual Hospital is great. The anatomical notes are clear and much easier to understand than most of the textbooks I have." - L.
• February 8, 2000: (Human Anatomic Variation) - "I am an EMT, and I like to review the information that I know. I do this so that I will constantly be prepared for anything that could happen! Your site is a great reviewer for me! I had no problems while using this site! It was very easy to understand and I found all the information that I needed! Thanks!" - R.
• June 28, 2000: (Human Anatomic Variation) - "I quite often refer to your Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation--it is a good resource and also useful for quick reference." - A.S.
• June 15, 1999: (Human Anatomic Variation) - "I spoke to you at the end of the John Martin Anatomy lecture, immediately after you showed us the Virtual Hosptial area for the anatomical variations. This is a URL that will be in my permanent bookmarks! The Virtual Hosptial is an important and credible source for medical information on the internet."- E.M,

Title Page

URL: http://www.anatomyatlases.org/