The six-credit course includes lectures and dissection sections—using donor human cadavers—each weekday. This summer, 202 students are taking the course—the most in recent memory. Dale R. Fish, senior ...

In his report, Dr. Ovsenek of the U of S estimated that making active cadaveric dissections optional would cut the number of hours undergraduate medical students devote to gross anatomy by 70 ...

Every year, first-year medical students grapple with gross anatomy, approaching their first human dissection with a mixture of anticipation, anxiety or sheer dread. On Monday, 150 students at Loyol… ...

Today, Gross Human Anatomy is a 400-level elective course for undergraduate students—with 12–15 students taking it each interim—and in the summer, 32 physician assistant students take an intensive ...

Inside the lab, or the "gross" lab as the students call it, 34 bodies were laid out on dissection tables. Draped with aqua sheets, there was just a hint of the human form underneath.

A glance at the winter issue of DoubleTake: Honoring the dead in gross anatomy“The gross anatomy laboratory at Duke University Medical Center is a surprisingly cheery place,” writes Virginia ...

A digital dissection manual, published by a professor and students at Columbia's medical college, aims to improve the gross anatomy student experience. WSJ's Jason Bellini reports. Medical ...

GATE 2024. GATE 2024 Workshop - Gross Dissection of the Head and Neck for Teacher Education. The UAB Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology (CDIB), in conjunction with the UAB ...

Donna Youssefnia, 15, approached the cadaver with the confidence of a medical student. “I touched the heart, the lungs, the small intestines and the large intestines,” said Youssefnia, … ...

I took Gross Anatomy five years ago (wow can't believe it's been that long) and it is still one of the most beneficial courses that I've ever had. I'm currently in PA school and am one of the only ...

Making it through the first day of gross anatomy lab is where it gets hard. In part one of a series following first-year medical students, NPR's Melissa Block joins the students in the lab.