[Maynerd]

I have mixed feelings. Gross anatomy is a rite of passage as well as a fundamental learning experience. However, mri and multidector ct multiplanar imaging are extremely effective teaching tools. I would guess that gross anatomy lab will go the way of the house call.

[cyborg]

gross anatomy=eight track cassette basically :-)

[boop]

Hopefully not. I am a physician and I will tell you that there is nothing that compares to anatomy being taught with cadavers. I had seen anatomy slides, pictures, movies, etc. my entire life before med school, but had no concept of how things fit together until I saw it in real life. Virtually no one would be able to picture these structures in 3-D unless they saw them in person. In fact some of my fellow students who planned on going into surgical specialties took an elective dissection their senior year.

[astounded]

CT and MRI are no substitute for actually seeing the real anatomy. They do not give the proper spatial perspective, and without having a minds-eye view of the real thing, how can a student/trainee correlate the images with the anatomy?