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Sweet anatomy: how a medical student is using confectionery to make learning anatomy fun

In a sweet shop you see strawberry laces, candy hearts, and foam bananas. But when I’m in a sweet shop I see capillaries, myocardium, and the beginnings of a pancreas and I start searching for some blue raspberry laces so I can finally incorporate deoxygenated blood vessels. Don’t worry, it’s me that’s the weird one, but let me explain a bit about my strange hobby.

My name is Mike McCormick. I’m a first year medical student at the University of Glasgow and a physiology graduate from the University of Edinburgh. My project Candy Anatomy started in September 2014, during the first few weeks of medical school, and since then it has spiralled out of control.

Having taken a few years away from academia, I decided to surround myself with everything medical …