[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.

[Mamzelle]

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!!

[John O]

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.