How Lippincott helps anatomy educators and program leaders

In today’s academic environment, anatomy instructors face challenges such as limited lab time, budget constraints, resource overload, and maintaining student engagement. Lippincott® Anatomy tackles these issues with a suite of trusted digital content and easy-to-integrate tools, empowering faculty to customize course materials, keep students engaged, and save valuable time — all while improving learning outcomes. These versatile solutions accommodate various learning modalities, including web, tablet, VR, and LMS, and are designed to support dissection labs, course assignments, and self-directed learning across multiple academic programs that include Clinical Anatomy courses.

Key benefits for educators and students


Solutions that support foundational anatomical knowledge

Equip educators, students, and practitioners with searchable videos, eBooks, images, and assessment content that empowers foundational clinical anatomy instruction from coursework and lab to board exams and clinical rotations.

Solutions that strengthen lab experiences

Prepare students for success in the gross anatomy lab with high-resolution videos that demonstrate professional dissection techniques using real cadaver specimens, or with immersive VR 3D gross anatomy lab experience.

Solutions that personalize anatomy teaching and learning

Lippincott solutions allow instructors to assign content seamlessly, track student performance with valuable insights, and keep students engaged and motivated - driving improved learning outcomes.

Lippincott digital human anatomy solution overview comparison charts

We know that institutions and faculty often use multiple resources to support their teaching and training. See how Lippincott's interactive digital anatomy solutions, including Acland's Video Atlas, Grant's Dissection Videos, and more, complement and compare to one another. Explore key features and benefits to find the best mix of solutions for your teaching needs and educational objectives.

Teaching foundational anatomical knowledge

Acland’s Atlas of Human Anatomy

With nearly 330 real-life 3D videos, this solution is perfect for enhancing your anatomy courses, laboratory sessions, and self-directed, online learning. Acland's videos show complex structures step by step — from bone to surface anatomy — to provide a foundation for understanding anatomical structure and function.

What do you get?

  • 300+ 3D videos (+15 hours) using real cadavers
  • Narration and annotation from pioneering anatomist Dr Robert Acland
  • 360-degree view of specimens, English-Latin labels
  • Labels and annotations in multiple languages
  • Key Terms study resource, including definitions and audio pronunciations
  • 300+ self-assessment questions

What sets it apart?

  • Real cadaver specimens
  • Natural color and movement
  • Comprehensive yet approachable, even for non-anatomists
  • Integration with other Wolters Kluwer resources on the Lippincott Clinical Context platform
  • Appeals to broad spectrum of learners at all levels of medical and health sciences education

How does it help?

  • Simplifies anatomy structure, movement, and function
  • Improves exam scores and helps master foundational knowledge
  • Ideal as simple, core visual reference
  • Incorporates easily into course materials
  • Supports teaching anatomy across multiple programs in medicine and healthcare
Teaching foundational anatomical knowledge

Health Library Anatomical Sciences Collection

Health Library: Anatomical Sciences helps students in medical and healthcare programs acquire a firm grasp of gross anatomy, embryology, histology, and neuroanatomy. They’ll get support for coursework, board exams, lab work, and prep for rotations and clerkships during the clinical phase of their program.

What do you get?

  • 15 Lippincott textbooks atlases, and exam review books, including Moore's Clinically Oriented Anatomy, Grant’s Dissector, and Langman’s Medical Embryology
  • Video clips covering anatomy, embryology, and neuroanatomy
  • Thousands of self-assessment questions
  • Clinical case studies
  • Medical embryology animations

What sets it apart?

  • Comprehensive collection of eBook and digital assets
  • Single platform for accessing all assets
  • Simple, intuitive navigation between assets
  • Ability to save and organize materials into favorites
  • Customizable quizzes and practice questions

How does it help?

  • Improves exam scores and helps master foundational knowledge
  • Prepares students for coursework and clinical training
  • Tracks student performance
  • Supports teaching anatomy across multiple programs in medicine and healthcare spectrum
Strengthening the lab experience

Grant’s Dissection Videos

An ideal solution for preparation and review in the gross anatomy lab environment. It contains 77 high-resolution videos using real cadaver specimens that demonstrate Grant’s method of cadaver dissection sequences and provide the anatomical detail students need to recognize important relationships revealed through dissection.

What do you get?

  • Nearly 80 videos (over 14 hours), organized by body region, demonstrating step-by-step cadaver dissection sequences, as described in Grant’s Dissector
  • Narration and on-screen annotation and labeling
  • Durable URLs to incorporate links into syllabi
  • Integration with other Wolters Kluwer resources on the Lippincott Clinical Context platform

What sets it apart?

  • Real cadaver specimens
  • Emphasis on standardized dissection techniques
  • Simple, intuitive video player navigation and video
  • Variable video playing speeds for easy navigation

How does it help?

  • Boosts confidence in lab performance (prior to lab)
  • Allows students to learn from dissection mistakes and reinforces critical skills (after lab)
  • Improves exam scores and helps students recognize anatomical relationships through dissection
  • Supports institutions that use actual dissection donors and those with minimal or no access to a cadaver lab
Strengthening the lab experience

BioDigital Human XR

BioDigital XR builds on the success of BioDigital Human, creating a standardized, rich media 3D experience that extends beyond virtual and augmented reality for learning anywhere on any device.

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What do you get?

  • 14,000+ interactive 3D anatomical models and animations
  • 600+ 3D conditions, diseases, procedures, and treatment models and animations
  • 500+ interactive 3D quiz questions
  • Virtual “hands” to manipulate and interact with structures and models
  • Interface, labels, and annotations in English, Spanish, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Portuguese
  • Virtual reality experience (additional device required)

What sets it apart?

  • Immersive virtual reality experience
  • Real-time interaction with the virtual environment
  • Multiuser collaboration functionality

How does it help?

  • Improves exam scores and helps students better understand the interplay between anatomy, treatments, and disease
  • Enables experiential learning of anatomical relationships
  • Encourages student collaboration
  • Supports multiple programs in medicine and healthcare spectrum
  • Supports institutions without or with minimal access to a cadaver or dissection lab
Offering a customizable teaching & learning experience

BioDigital Human

An interactive 3D software platform for visualizing anatomy, disease, and treatments within the human body. It also empowers the creation and publication of interactive models of anatomy, physiology, disease and treatments for better student engagement.


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What do you get?

  • 14,000+ interactive 3D anatomical models and animations
  • 600+ 3D conditions, diseases, procedures, and treatment models and animations
  • 500+ interactive 3D quiz questions
  • Human Studio, which allows faculty/instructors to create customized teaching tools tailored to specific courses and curricula
  • Interface, labels, and annotations in English, Spanish, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Portuguese

What sets it apart?

  • 3D models and animations of structures, diseases, and procedures
  • Customization and personalization options
  • High degree of interactivity
  • Models and animations designed for easy instructor use
  • Cloud-based technology for easy access

How does it help?

  • Gives instructors the flexibility to tailor training and teaching to different students and courses
  • Allows students to manipulate models and animations
  • Improves exam scores and helps students better understand the interplay between anatomy, treatments, and disease
  • Supports multiple programs in medicine and healthcare spectrum
Offering a customizable teaching & learning experience

Lippincott Connect Courseware for Anatomy

Lippincott Connect is a personalized teaching and learning solution that offers faculty assignability, feedback, and insights on their students’ course performance. With intuitive navigation, easy-to-create assignments and quizzes, useful remediation, and valuable performance data, Lippincott Connect provides a complete learning environment based on engagement, motivation, and better student outcomes.

What do you get?

  • Interactive eBook from Lippincott
  • Video tours, images, animations, and other multimedia tools
  • Student assignments, assessment questions, and quizzes
  • Lecture slides and syllabus conversion guides for instructors
  • Dashboard for organizing assignments, quizzes, and performance data

What sets it apart?

  • Combines eBook and digital assets on a single platform
  • Assignable content
  • Customizable to specific students and courses
  • Real-time assessment remediation for students and data for faculty
  • Seamless integration with LMS or curriculum

How does it help?

  • Improves exam scores and helps students master key concepts in anatomy
  • Provides insights about student performance and content mastery
  • Saves students time navigating between course materials
  • Simplifies course management, refinement, and adaptability
  • Supports diverse learning styles

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Frequently Asked Questions about our Anatomy solutions

  • Can Lippincott anatomy tools replace a physical cadaver lab?

    Yes, tools like Grant’s Dissection Video Collection and BioDigital XR offer high-resolution videos and immersive 3D experiences that can serve as effective alternatives or supplements to physical labs.

  • Is Lippincott content compatible with Learning Management Systems (LMS)?

    Yes, Lippincott solutions are designed to integrate seamlessly with various LMS platforms, allowing for easy assignment creation and grade tracking.

  • What specific anatomy textbooks are included in the Lippincott Connect digital collection?

    The collection features digital content based on trusted resources such as, Moore’s Clinically Oriented Anatomy, Grant’s Atlas of Anatomy, and Grant's Dissector.

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