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Direct linkEllen M. Robertson; Sara M. Allison; Caroline M. Mueller; Andrew C. Ferriby; Alex R. Roth; Ranjan Batra – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2024
Brain dissection is typically an important part of teaching neuroscience in health professional programs. This results in the need to effectively remove brains, which is often performed in a gross anatomy laboratory in the same curriculum. The aim of this study was to determine the most effective method of brain removal based on the time required…
Descriptors: Laboratory Procedures, Anatomy, Neurosciences, Allied Health Occupations Education
Jürgen Russ; Niels Hammer – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2025
This study describes the process of developing a high-impact, low-cost, and low-maintenance air ventilation system for anatomy facilities. It employed the strategic application of Value Engineering (VE), assuring that the air ventilation system meets contemporary threshold limit values (TLVs) for formaldehyde in the working zone of dissection…
Descriptors: Engineering, Anatomy, Science Laboratories, Laboratory Procedures
Maud Creze; Sanjib Kumar Ghosh – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2025
Adherence to the highest ethical standards is mandatory while handling precious human tissues received through the altruistic act of body donation. In 2019, misconduct at the Body Donation Center in Paris led to its closure. This adversely affected the hands-on human dissection sessions within the anatomy education program at Université…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Laboratory Procedures, Anatomy, Foreign Countries
Gitto, Lorenzo; Middleton, Frank A.; Reynolds, Erin S.; Thangamani, Saravanan; Jaeger, Daniel A.; Mihaila, Dana M. – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic severely affected the medical education worldwide. The infection risk for medical students and healthcare personnel who work with COVID-19 positive cadavers or tissues remains unclear. Moreover, COVID-19 positive cadavers have been rejected by medical schools, adversely impacting the continuum of medical education. Herein,…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Medical Education, Human Body
Patrick Maffucci; Chang H. Park; Mo Shirur; Benjamin Hyers; Adam I. Levine; Daniel Katz; Garrett W. Burnett; Jeffrey T. Laitman – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2024
Anatomy is an essential component of clinical anesthesiology. The use of simulated patients and alternative materials, including embalmed human bodies, have become increasingly common during resident physician training due to the deemphasis on anatomical education during undergraduate medical training. In this report, the need for a more extensive…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Science Instruction, Graduate Medical Education, Anesthesiology
David Gareth Jones – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2024
The development of anatomy as a scientific undertaking appears to have left little room for religious and cultural input into the conduct of anatomical investigations. This has been brought to the fore by questionnaires regarding the willingness or otherwise of individuals to donate their bodies for dissection, with higher levels of willingness…
Descriptors: Religious Factors, Cultural Influences, Human Body, Donors
Antipova, Veronica; Niedermair, Julian F.; Siwetz, Martin; Fellner, Franz A.; Löffler, Sabine; Manhal, Simone; Ondruschka, Benjamin; Pietras, Sandra M.; Poilliot, Amélie J.; Pretterklieber, Michael L.; Wree, Andreas; Hammer, Niels – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2023
Anatomical dissection is known to serve as an integral tool in teaching gross anatomy, including postgraduate training. A variety of embalming techniques exist, resulting in different haptic and optical tissue properties. This study aimed to objectify learning outcomes and medical student perceptions related to the use of two widely used embalming…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Premedical Students, Student Attitudes, Outcomes of Education
Sabine Hildebrandt; Claudia Krebs – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2025
The Pernkopf atlas is a well-known case study of anatomists' ethical transgressions in using bodies of Nazi victims for professional purposes and the relevance of this history for today. This study examines the likely sources from which Pernkopf developed his own anatomical gaze and pedagogical approach to depicting the human body. It also…
Descriptors: Human Body, Victims, Jews, European History
Siti Nurma Hanim Hadie; Hosam Eldeen Elsadig Gasmalla; Majed M. Wadi; Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin; Muhamad Saiful Bahri Yusoff – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2024
Human dissection is an ancient pedagogical method that is still relevant in modern anatomy curricula. The body procurement process for dissection purposes has undergone significant evolution from the medieval era until now, whereby body donation has become the main source for human bodies in medical education. The appreciation ceremony for body…
Descriptors: Islam, Religious Factors, Human Body, Donors
Terrado, José; Gómez, Olga; Chicharro, Deborah; García-Manzanares, Maria; Juárez, Miriam; Romo-Barrientos, Carmen; Mohedano-Moriano, Alicia; Criado-Álvarez, Juan José – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2023
The use of cadavers is essential for veterinary anatomy learning. However, facing an animal corpse can be stressful for veterinary students because of their empathy toward animals. The objective of this study was to evaluate veterinary medicine students' emotions, feelings, and anxiety levels related to practicals with dog cadavers. Two…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Emotional Response, Veterinary Medicine, Veterinary Medical Education
Claire F. Smith; Danya Stone; Ross Munro; Aiden Jayanth; Catherine M. Hennessy; Dominic O'Brien; Camilla Ingram; Geetika Ail; Michael Koenig; Laura Arnold; Matthew Bemment; Malcolm Johnston – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2024
Recently, there has been an emphasis on keeping the study of anatomy using donor material confined to the domain of medical and allied healthcare professionals. Given the abundance of both accurate and inaccurate information online, coupled with a heightened focus on health following the COVID-19 pandemic, one may question whether it is time to…
Descriptors: Human Body, Donors, Laboratory Procedures, Documentaries
Kerner, Alexander Michael; Biedermann, Uta; Bräuer, Lars; Caspers, Svenja; Doll, Sara; Engelhardt, Maren; Filler, Timm J.; Ghebremedhin, Estifanos; Gundlach, Stefanie; Hayn-Leichsenring, Gregor U.; Heermann, Stephan; Hettwer-Steeger, Ingrid; Hiepe, Laura; Hirt, Bernhard; Hirtler, Lena; Hörmann, Romed; Kulisch, Christoph; Lange, Tobias; Leube, Rudolf; Meuser, Annika Hela; Müller-Gerbl, Magdalena; Nassenstein, Christina; Neckel, Peter H.; Nimtschke, Ute; Paulsen, Friedrich; Prescher, Andreas; Pretterklieber, Michael; Schliwa, Stefanie; Schmidt, Katja; Schmiedl, Andreas; Schomerus, Christof; Schulze-Tanzil, Gundula; Schumacher, Udo; Schumann, Sven; Spindler, Volker; Streicher, Johannes; Tschernig, Thomas; Unverzagt, Axel; Valentiner, Ursula; Viebahn, Christoph; Wedel, Thilo; Weigner, Janet; Weninger, Wolfgang J.; Westermann, Jürgen; Weyers, Imke; Waschke, Jens; Hammer, Niels – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2023
Hands-on courses utilizing preserved human tissues for educational training offer an important pathway to acquire basic anatomical knowledge. Owing to the reevaluation of formaldehyde limits by the European Commission, a joint approach was chosen by the German-speaking anatomies in Europe (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) to find commonalities among…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Hands on Science, Human Body, Laboratory Procedures
Lai, Emily R.; Rukavina, Nadia A.; Wisco, Jonathan J.; Zumwalt, Ann C. – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2023
The anatomy laboratory can incite strong emotional reactions in students, which can in turn facilitate growth in empathy, care for vulnerable others, and professionalism. Despite this, little is known about the relative emotional impacts of different laboratory modalities. The response to the COVID-19 pandemic created an opportunity to compare the…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Medical Education, Laboratory Procedures, Emotional Response
Collin G. Liang; Masako Matsunaga; Melia Takakusagi; J. DeMeo; Jesse D. Thompson; Christoph Rettenmeier; Günes Aytaç; U-Young Lee; Scott Lozanoff – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2024
Anatomy instructional methods varied widely during the COVID-19 pandemic and programs are assessing innovations for retention. Learning preferences were assessed among medical students dichotomized as elective dissectors (ED) or non-dissectors (ND) during the COVID-19 partial re-opening in 2020 (preclinical) and again in 2022 after clinical…
Descriptors: Medical Students, COVID-19, Pandemics, Learning
William Brown; Sam Afshari; Megan Zhou; Jacob Lythgoe; Ryan Walsh; Abigail C. Hielscher – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2024
Basic competency in radiological imaging is essential for physicians to identify and manage diseases. An optimal place in which to include imaging in the medical curriculum is during anatomy as students can correlate the 3D anatomy from their body donors with the 2D cross-sectional anatomy. The goal of this project was to enhance first-year…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Medical Education, Donors, Human Body
