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Health sciences educators have necessarily become more creative in their approach to teaching the anatomical sciences effectively in the face of increasing enrollment, decreasing contact time, budget cuts and a shrinking pool of available and trained instructors. In this focus session, participants will exchange experiences and ideas for maximizing teaching opportunities in Anatomy, Histology and Neuroanatomy to pre-clinical Medical and Dental students. More specifically, participants will discuss strategies for 1) developing interactive laboratory experiences utilizing student teaching assistants, residents and retired physicians teaching with basic science faculty; 2) developing applied clinical workshop experiences that utilize clinical instructors teaching with basic science faculty; and 3) developing case-based small group learning experiences where student teaching assistants and basic science faculty reinforce laboratory and workshop experiences. After exchanging experiences and ideas, participants will break into small groups and work together to develop curricula for hypothetical scenarios based on real-life experiences. At the conclusion of this focus session, participants will be equipped with ideas from multiple institutions for enhancing their own Medical and Dental anatomical sciences curricula.