What medicial schools still do Cadaver dissection?

Sycopation

If someone could answer this that would be great!

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Reply 1

Maker

they all do. Not for the sqeamish

Reply 2

06shawm

Manchester still use cadavers for anatomical dissection and prosections. I personally think it is one the best forms of learning anatomy :biggrin:

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Reply 3

shiggydiggy

Original post by Maker

they all do. Not for the sqeamish

Most don't.

Reply 4

alex193

Nottingham do a year of small group full body dissection and the course is likely to be evolving towards using it even more heavily in the next couple of years :smile:

I'm pretty sure Bristol, Sheffield, and Leeds also do, don't know about the rest :smile:

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bristol does

St Andrews still do this.

Reply 7

navarre

Exeter and Plymouth don't

Reply 8

nexttime

You can definitely google this.

Original post by Maker

they all do.

Most do pre-section now, not dissection. Some have no teaching using cadavers at all.

Not for the sqeamish

You get over it quickly.

Does it even matter?

what about:

Manchester
Exeter
Sheffield
Newcastle
Leicester

Reply 11

Beska

Original post by vee_wuvshugs

what about:

Manchester
Exeter
Sheffield
Newcastle
Leicester

Newcastle don't, we use prosections. You can intercalate into a MRes, include an anatomy module and I think that allows dissection.

Reply 12

vee_wuvshugs

Original post by Beska

Newcastle don't, we use prosections. You can intercalate into a MRes, include an anatomy module and I think that allows dissection.

I really wanted to do cadaver dissection :frown:

Newcastle is still perfect though - I really hope I get in. What is it like there?

Reply 13

t()m

Original post by insomniacz

bristol does

They use prosecution rather than dissection don't they ?

Cardiff Leicester St. Andrews and Sheffield do as well

Not Birmingham.

Keele do!

Loads of them (it really annoys me on open days when med schools are like 'we are one of the only medical schools that still do dissection'). Don't base your application on it though, it's not that important. I didn't learn anything from it anyway, prosections are much more useful for learning in my opinion. Don't know about anyone else but this was way more useful than the time spent in the DR.

http://ect.downstate.edu/courseware/haonline/quiz.htm

Reply 17

insomniacz

Original post by t()m

They use prosecution rather than dissection don't they ?

Cardiff Leicester St. Andrews and Sheffield do as well

Prosecution?!?

I dissected cadavers when I did was in first and second year :yes:

Reply 18

Coke Or Pepsi

Cambridge - for the entire of first year, one cadaver between 6 people, guided by a massive anatomy manual, which contains notes for each session, detailing the structures you're dissecting and gives their anatomical information etc. Anatomy teaching at Cambridge is superb. The course is supported with lectures and labs, and is brilliantly taught.

Also use prosections and models alongside dissection for revision.

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Reply 19

Sambo2

Original post by Sycopation

If someone could answer this that would be great!

Probably the best anatomy teaching in the UK happens in St Andrews. It's ridiculously thorough and you dissect in small groups in an ultra modern laboratory every week for 2 and a half years, covering the entire body in huge detail - support by lectures, surface anatomy and micro labs. The anatomy team is legendary and the teaching is excellent, if possibly a bit too in depth..