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  • Keeping calm with cadaveric dissection in medical curricula (Letter)

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    Author(s)
    Khoo, Tien K
    Dissabandara, Lakal O
    Nirthanan, Selvanayagam N
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Khoo, Tien Kheng
    Nirthanan, S Niru
    Dissabandara, Dissa L.
    Year published
    2021
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    Abstract
    We read with interest the recently published article by Zubair et al. that studied the psychological impact of cadaveric dissection on first-year medical students at two teaching hospitals in Lahore, Pakistan.1 Anatomy is considered a cornerstone of basic sciences in medicine and, as a result, incorporated in the foundation years of medical curricula. As the authors rightfully indicated, cadaveric dissection provides a unique role in learning about the human structure and function. The authors concluded that symptoms of acute stress disorder (ASD) were present in the cohort involved with first-time dissection and this was ...
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    We read with interest the recently published article by Zubair et al. that studied the psychological impact of cadaveric dissection on first-year medical students at two teaching hospitals in Lahore, Pakistan.1 Anatomy is considered a cornerstone of basic sciences in medicine and, as a result, incorporated in the foundation years of medical curricula. As the authors rightfully indicated, cadaveric dissection provides a unique role in learning about the human structure and function. The authors concluded that symptoms of acute stress disorder (ASD) were present in the cohort involved with first-time dissection and this was particularly more apparent in female students. We agree that the presence of ASD symptoms may lead to detrimental effects in learning among the cohort of junior medical students and support the notion that preparedness and possible desensitisation may help reduce these symptoms.
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    Journal Title
    Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
    Volume
    51
    Issue
    3
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.4997/JRCPE.2021.327
    Copyright Statement
    © 2021 Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Specialist studies in education
    Clinical sciences
    Science & Technology
    Life Sciences & Biomedicine
    Medicine, General & Internal
    General & Internal Medicine
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/409094
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