Walk around the South Campus or peek into the Health Sciences Library during the first summer session each year and you’re sure to see them, dressed in blue or green scrubs and toting copies of “Grant ...

Washington, DC–Gross anatomy dissection books have changed little in recent decades even though today's students may be more visual learners, curriculum committees frequently assign fewer hours to the ...

“The gross anatomy laboratory at Duke University Medical Center is a surprisingly cheery place,” writes Virginia Holman, a former writer-in-residence at Duke. The lab’s lush tropical plants (there to ...

Every year, first-year medical students grapple with gross anatomy, approaching their first human dissection with a mixture of anticipation, anxiety or sheer dread. On Monday, 150 students at Loyola ...

An increasing number of medical schools are incorporating digital dissections into their curriculum. But the University of Cincinnati is not one of them. It says this is a case where technology is not ...

Classes at the University of Maryland Medical School may have begun a few weeks ago, but for 160 freshmen dressed in scrubs, a real medical introduction didn't arrive until they entered the gross ...

Several days ago, we were fortunate to get a tour of the gross anatomy lab here at Drexel University College of Medicine. And by gross, I don't mean disgusting - I mean what the medical world terms ...

The UAB Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology (CDIB), in conjunction with the UAB Department of Medical Education, held the GATE professional development course in human gross ...

When it comes to hands-on learning, I can think of no classroom more compelling than a gross anatomy lab, where students of the human form dissect actual bodies from head-to-toe with their own hands.