Dissection laboratory is vital to medical gross anatomy education

Anatomical Record - Part B New Anatomist

Volumn 281, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 6-8

  Granger, Noelle A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANATOMY; CURRICULUM; DISSECTION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DYING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HUMANITIES; LABORATORY; LICENSING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRAINING;

ANATOMY; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CADAVER; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DISSECTION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HUMANS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 9644265193     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.b.20039     Document Type: Review

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