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Reflections

Vol. 20 No. 2 (2022): New Horizons: Innovation in Medicine

A reflection on the role of anatomists in modern medical education: confronting meaning and mortality in the gross anatomy laboratory

DOI
https://doi.org/10.26443/mjm.v20i2.940
Submitted
September 19, 2021
Published
2022-04-19

Abstract

Modes of anatomical instruction (especially the need to dissect cadavers) have been contested for generations. The present narrative provides an opportunity to re-approach this age-old debate and contemplate the state of anatomical sciences education through a narrative reflection of an encounter with a donor in the cadaveric anatomy laboratory.

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