To: Maynerd
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.
14 posted on
03/23/2004 12:59:05 AM PST by
boop
To: boop
I had to shake my head at the thought of abandoning this essential entry-level education. What exactly will they replace this with--some sociological puff course? With the advent of reducing the work-load of first-year interns (who then see so many fewer patients)--it's the old geezers for **this** patient!!
19 posted on
03/23/2004 7:25:56 AM PST by
Mamzelle
To: boop
Virtually no one would be able to picture these structures in 3-D unless they saw them in person. While you are most probably right in the rest of your statements I take issue with this one. Tons of people would be able to properly assemble the components back into a 3-d image. Of course the very ability that lets them do this also almost certainly dooms them to a career as engineers.
I just underwent an emergency appendectomy three weeks ago and I'll go on record as saying I Thank God that my surgeon had gross anatomy. I wouldn't want anyone cutting on me as their first body to cut up.
20 posted on
03/23/2004 10:53:13 AM PST by
John O
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