Revised by: ranney@hsfx.ca 2008/07/26
Anatomy and Injuries in Work and Sport are my main areas of teaching expertise. Since first arriving at the University of Waterloo in 1976 I taught Human Anatomy of the Limbs and Back (KIN 200). After the establishment of the School of Anatomy in 1978 gave us the legal right to dissect donated bodies, it became possible to offer a course in human neuroanatomy (KIN 201). These two anatomy courses I continued to teach even though I had officially "retired" June 30, 1996. My last teaching assisgnment was in the spring of 1999--at least it seemed to be.
In October 2005, Dr. Steve Prentice (who had taken over the teaching of KIN 200 when I retired) developed a serious illness that prevented him from teaching Human Anatomy of the Limbs and Back in the spring term of 2006. By then it was a first year course, KIN 100. I agreed to teach in his place but, because grade 13 had been abolished by the Ontario Government a few years earlier, I found myself really teaching High School! That was an experience I shall never forget.
Because of my training in orthopaedic surgery and clinical experience in orthopaedic and sports medicine, from 1978 to 1996 I taught many courses in sports medicine, and returned in 1999 to help teach the "double cohort" that had resulted from the abolition of Grade 13 by the Mike Harris provincial government.
My first course was KIN 431, Injuries to the Head and Neck. Later I switched with Pat Bishop and taught instead Introduction to Sportsmedicine (KIN 340). This was more suitable to my training as an orthopaedic surgeon. With growing interest in chronic work injuries developing, this course was renamed Injuries in Work and Sport. In order to give our students some supervised hands-on clinical experience I developed KIN 491. It was available to 12 of the better students in the final year. These sportsmedicine courses are now in the hands of others.
Retirement has now become a full time job.Where I taught until 1999. That's me in the central picture, teaching in the lab.
Created by: ranney@hsfx.ca 1997/02/11
Revised by: ranney@hsfx.ca 2008/07/26