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Cadaveric anatomy in the future of medical education: what is the surgeons view?
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posted on 2024-03-12, 14:09 authored by Ahmad Hassan Sheikh, Denis S, Barry, Humberto Gutierrez, John F. Cryan, Gerard W. O'KeeffeReduced contact hours and access to cadaveric/prosection-based teaching in medical education has led to many doctors reporting inadequate anatomical knowledge of junior doctors. This trend poses significant risk, but perhaps most of all in surgery. Here the opinions of surgeons regarding current and future teaching practices in anatomy were surveyed. Eighty surgeons were invited to complete a questionnaire, 48 of which were returned for a 60% response rate. Respondents were asked to select the method they viewed as the best method of teaching anatomy. Sixty-five percent of respondents selected “cadaver/prosection demonstration” (P?
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