Is the decline of human anatomy hazardous to medical education/profession?—A review

Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1257-1265

  Singh, Rajani ^a   Shane Tubbs, R ^b   Gupta, Kavita ^c   Singh, Man ^d   Jones, D Gareth ^e   Kumar, Raj ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b Childern’s of Alabama ^*  (United States)

^c PHC   (India)

^d DRIAS   (India)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Balanced scheduling; Declining phase of anatomy; Medical education

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; ARTICLE; CADAVER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CURRICULUM; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISSECTION; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL PROFESSION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STUDENT ATTITUDE; SURGICAL TRAINING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ANATOMY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION; PROCEDURES;

ANATOMY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HUMANS;

EID: 84947613298     PISSN: 09301038     EISSN: 12798517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00276-015-1507-7     Document Type: Article

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