Facilitating OT and PT Graduate Student Laboratory Participation, Preparedness, and Professionalism in a Compressed, Intensive Gross Anatomy Dissection Course Series

Leadership and professionalism curriculum in the Gross Anatomy course.

INTRODUCTION Today's physicians must demonstrate both professionalism and leadership skills in order to succeed in largely team-based healthcare environments. The purpose of this study was to determine if professionalism attributes, leadership style, and leadership style adaptability are associated with academic performance among first-year students early in their medical curriculum. MATERIAL...

Peer-Assisted Learning in a Gross Anatomy Dissection Course

Peer-assisted learning encourages students to participate more actively in the dissection process and promotes thoughtful dissection. We implemented peer-assisted dissection in 2012 and compared its effects on students' self-assessments of learning and their academic achievement with those of faculty-led dissection. All subjects performed dissections after a lecture about upper-limb gross anato...

Developing empathy and clinical detachment during the dissection course in gross anatomy.

In their excellent quantitative analysis of students’ valuation of gross anatomy as an ‘‘important’’ course, Böckers et al. (2010) come to the conclusion that this high valuation could depend on the students’ perceived growth in professional competencies during the course. The students counted among these competencies their increased abilities in teamwork, time management, learning strategies, ...

excruciating effect of formaldehyde exposure to students in gross anatomy dissection laboratory

background: formaldehyde is extensively used for preservation of cadavers in departments of anatomy. however, it is a noxious chemical which may cause serious health problems. objective: to assess the effect of exposure of medical students to formaldehyde at the department of anatomy, niger delta university, nigeria. methods: in a questionnaire-based study, 93 second-year medical students were ...

Catechism Series. Anatomy, Pt. I