Humanizing the student--cadaver encounter.
In a recently accredited medical school, the curriculum, which emphasizes the psychologic and social aspects of disease, includes innovative features aimed toward training students to provide humanistic health care in underserved areas. As part of this curriculum, an educational experiment was designed to explore issues concerning the medical student's first exposure to a cadaver. The authors describe the experiment as it evolved over a three-year period, and they discuss its value based on student evaluation and faculty opinion.
D000715:Anatomy / Q000193:education; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002102:Cadaver; D003479:Curriculum; D004210:Dissection; D004501:Education, Medical; D006801:Humans