Role of Dissection; Anatomy Teaching from Perspectives of Undergraduate -A Qualitative Study

摘要

Teaching of anatomy and the use of dissection in undergraduate teaching is witnessing a major change in medical colleges of India. All students in medical colleges of India go through extensive anatomy teaching by dissection. There has been much debate about use of dissection or prossected part anatomy teaching and both sides of argument is of importance. Many issues have been debated about variety of responses of UG students to human cadaver, problems faced by students who are taught by dissection or by prossected part teaching and relative costs and educational merits of using cadaver with alternative methods. As authors we have tried to express our views in this ongoing debate