AMES, Iowa – In a recent class session devoted to reviewing the components of a monogastric digestive system, Alexandra Else-Keller reminded an animal science student how to position her fingers as ...

For fledgling medical students, slicing into their first cadaver can be an important rite of passage. They often enter the anatomy lab as skittish new trainees and leave it as self-assured future ...

Every Friday afternoon, 60 students cram into three laboratory spaces. Those labs have a distinct smell: ethanol and other chemicals, preserving four human cadavers. More than half of the 60 students ...

But in recent years, as medicine—and medical education—has become more team-based and interdisciplinary, medical schools across the country are bringing anatomy training out of its silo and ...

Animal science students at Iowa State University are now able to do virtual 3-D dissections of animals on large touch screens and tablets to learn about anatomy. ISU Professor Karl Kerns says about ...

Join us for this collaborative continuing education course offered by the faculty of Doctor of Physical Therapy programs in the Philadelphia area. This two-day, laboratory intensive course will ...

To learn more about WSU’s Willed Body Program, call (509) 368-6600, email wsu.willedbody@wsu.edu or visit them online at medicine.wsu.edu/give/willed-body-program ...

Participants in Bristol Myers-Squibb Science Horizons Camp at Syracuse University dissect a fetal pig in July 2010. Fayetteville-Manlius High School biology teacher Ben Gnacik (center) assists H.W.

Each year, students with a passion to learn more about the human body can join the advanced human anatomy dissection team. The members of the dissection team meet each Friday to dissect human cadavers ...

The room is abuzz with conversation, questions and an occasional electric saw. At raised tables, trios of gowned men and women tweeze and scalpel their way through a human pelvis, sinew by sinew.