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  • Teaching anatomy without cadavers

    Author(s)
    McLachlan, JC
    Bligh, J
    Bradley, P
    Searle, J
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Searle, Judith
    Year published
    2004
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    Abstract
    Background Anatomy learning is generally seen as essential to medicine, and exposure to cadavers is generally seen as essential to anatomy learning around the world. Few voices dissenting from these propositions can be identified. Aims This paper aims to consider arguments relating to the use of cadavers in anatomy teaching, and to describe the rationale behind the decision of a new UK medical school not to use cadaveric material. Discussion First, the background to use of cadavers in anatomy learning is explored, and some general educational principles are explored. Next, arguments for the use of human cadaveric ...
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    Background Anatomy learning is generally seen as essential to medicine, and exposure to cadavers is generally seen as essential to anatomy learning around the world. Few voices dissenting from these propositions can be identified. Aims This paper aims to consider arguments relating to the use of cadavers in anatomy teaching, and to describe the rationale behind the decision of a new UK medical school not to use cadaveric material. Discussion First, the background to use of cadavers in anatomy learning is explored, and some general educational principles are explored. Next, arguments for the use of human cadaveric material are summarised. Then, possible arguments against use of cadavers, including educational principles as well as costs, hazards and practicality, are considered. These are much less well explored in the existing literature. Next, the rationale behind the decision of a new UK medical school not to use cadaveric material is indicated, and the programme of anatomy teaching to be employed in the absence of the use of human remains is described. Curriculum design and development, and evaluation procedures, are briefly described. Issues surrounding pathology training by autopsy, and postgraduate training in surgical anatomy, are not addressed in this paper. Future directions Evidence relating to the effect on medical learning by students not exposed to cadavers is scant, and plainly opportunities will now arise through our programme to gather such evidence. We anticipate that this discussion paper will contribute to an ongoing debate, in which virtually all previous papers on this topic have concluded that use of cadavers is essential to medical learning.
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    Journal Title
    Medical Education
    Volume
    38
    Issue
    4
    Publisher URI
    https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1046/j.1365-2923.2004.01795.x
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2923.2004.01795.x
    Subject
    Biomedical and clinical sciences
    Education
    Psychology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/25226
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