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 ...

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 ...

NEWARK - Rutgers University physician assistant students hovered over a virtual dissection table displaying the life-size image of a cadaver — the body of a 38-year-old man who had donated his body ...

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.

“There’s memory of a whole life in your hands—if you could just read it,” says Professor of Biology Tim Shaw, holding out his empty hands, cupped as though they were containing something fragile. Shaw ...

With our free press under threat and federal funding for public media gone, your support matters more than ever. Help keep the LAist newsroom strong, become a monthly member or increase your support ...