“In today’s American medical education, all but a handful of medical schools make cadaver dissection or prosection (dissection done by an expert as demonstration for students) part of their first- and second-year anatomy courses. But now, with COVID-19 upending the higher education experience around the world, those teaching and studying medicine are wondering how to proceed with the training… Medical educators have been working for years to make virtual anatomy learning interactive so students can experience ‘living anatomy’ instead of struggling to see anatomical structures for the first time in an embalmed cadaver.”
Read more at Slate .
