Understanding of anatomical structures and their relationships is the basis and key of surgicand clinical thinking. In clinical teaching for residents and graduate students

we took the advantage of donor operations in organ transplantation and showed abdominal anal operations atomical features and relationships through different view angles and comprehensive ways. This new teaching approach was designed in accordance with processes of organ donation

procurement and back-table operation. The main contents included anatomy of abdominal wall layers

relationships among abdominal organs

locations and courses of important structure

as well as medical humanistic education. On the background of more acceptance and routinization of donation after cardiac death

anatomy demonstration in organ procurement and back-table operation can make up the limitation of traditional anatomy teaching

and may become a novel approach with better teaching performance

deserving further application and improvement.