Exemplo - A Guide to Dissection of the Human Body

Preface to the first edition

The sequence of dissections that is described covers the entire body and

can be adapted to practical courses of any desired duration.

Knowing that the average student soon forgets the mass of anatomical

detail he/she is sometimes enjoined to learn, and with the object of

encouraging the kind of study which provides a three-dimensional idea of

the structure of the body, detail has been eliminated which has no apparent

scientific or educational value, or which has little obvious clinical

significance.

This guide is a manual intended to facilitate and guide human anatomical

dissections.

have reduced the number of hours available for gross anatomical studies, it

is the objective of the guide to save time whenever possible. Consequently

the text is concise.

It is not a replacement for a textbook. Since recent medical curricula

The manual is programmed in such a way that the dissection of the whole

human body can be completed in 110 to 160 actual hours of dissection

This is essential at a time when the teaching of gross anatomy in most

medical schools has been drastically reduced from some 350 hours in the

1970s.

The guide comprises the following programme:

1. It commences with a

.General Introduction and brief section on

Terminology

2. Each

(a) A brief

on the basis of embryology and evolution;

(b) an

features are mentioned and which can be usefully discussed by

the tutor before the commencement of the dissection. This also

enables the student to familiarise him/herself with the necessary

terminology even before attending the class. The use of various

audiovisual aids will enable the student to comprehend the

structures of the section he/she will be dissecting during the

particular session;

(c) a

instructions. These are given serially and in short steps so as to

expose all the relevant important features.

instructions are highlighted in italics.

that should be read by both students and their tutors.Anatomical Region under consideration for dissection has:Introduction which explains the disposition of the structuresOverview of the section to be dissected where the relevantDissection Schedule which guides the student through a set ofAll the practical