The Value of Cadaveric Dissection in Undergraduate Medical Education: A Student's Perspective on the State of Affairs

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (S1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jake Smith
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Undergraduate Medical Education ◽  
The State ◽  
Cadaveric Dissection ◽  
State Of Affairs

scholarly journals Influence of undergraduate medical education exposure to cadaveric dissection on choice of surgical specialty: a national survey of Canadian surgical residents

2021 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tyler McKechnie ◽  
Jeremy E. Springer ◽  
Aristithes G. Doumouras ◽  
Travis Schroeder ◽  
Cagla Eskicioglu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Undergraduate Medical Education ◽  
Likert Scale ◽  
Training Methods ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Surgical Specialty ◽  
Cadaveric Dissection ◽  
Surgical Residents ◽  
First Choice ◽  
The Impact

Background: The number of Canadian Residency Matching Service (CaRMS) applicants ranking surgical specialties as their first choice has declined over the past 20 years; concurrently, there has been a reduction in the number of hours spent teaching undergraduate medical education (UGME) anatomy, particularly with cadaveric dissection. The aim of this study was to determine the factors that most influence selection of a surgical specialty, with specific focus on the impact of UGME anatomy training. Methods: A 36-item cross-sectional survey was designed by experts in medical education and distributed to all current surgical residents in Canada in October 2018. Responses were recorded on a 5-point Likert scale or by means of list ranking. We analyzed univariable outcomes with a t test for continuous outcomes and the χ2 test for dichotomous outcomes. Results: Of 1493 surgical residents, 228 responded to the survey (response rate 15.3%). Respondents reported experiences on core rotations and elective rotations, and access to a mentor as the most important factors in deciding to pursue a surgical residency. Anatomy training with or without cadaveric dissection was moderately influential in respondents’ first-choice CaRMS discipline (mean Likert scale score 2.97 [standard deviation (SD) 1.34] and 2.87 [SD 1.26], respectively). General surgery residents’ CaRMS applications were more likely to have been influenced by UGME anatomy training than the applications by residents in other surgical specialties (p < 0.001). The impact of UGME anatomy training did not vary between postgraduate years or between male and female residents. Conclusion: Canadian surgical residents’ decision to apply to a surgical specialty did not seem to be strongly influenced by their UGME anatomy training, with or without cadaveric dissection, but, rather, by factors such as clinical experience and surgical mentorship. Further evaluation of groups that were more positively affected by their UGME anatomy training is warranted.

scholarly journals The State of Point-of-Care Ultrasound Training in Undergraduate Medical Education

2021 ◽  
Vol Publish Ahead of Print ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances M. Russell ◽  
Bita Zakeri ◽  
Audrey Herbert ◽  
Robinson M. Ferre ◽  
Abraham Leiser ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Undergraduate Medical Education ◽  
Point Of Care ◽  
The State ◽  
Point Of Care Ultrasound

scholarly journals Apuntes para la historia de la Unidad Académica de Medicina de la Universidad Autónoma de Nayarit

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 5646-5679
Author(s):  
Bernabe Rios Nava
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Undergraduate Medical Education ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
The State ◽  
Academic Unit ◽  
The Past ◽  
De Medicina

Los pasados 20 al 23 de Mayo de 2013 evaluadores del Consejo Mexicano para la Acreditación de la Educación Médica (COMAEM), realizaron su proceso de evaluación para la re-acreditación del programa de estudios de la Unidad Académica de Medicina (UAM) de la Universidad Autónoma de Nayarit (UAN). El 8 de noviembre de 2013 en ceremonia oficial, le fue entregada al rector la placa de reconocimiento. Este hecho coloca a la institución como la más importante en la formación médica de pregrado en el estado. El presente trabajo vuelve al pasado y recupera algunas de sus etapas históricas más importantes.   The past 20 al May 23, 2013 evaluators of the Mexican Council for Accreditation of Medical Education (COMAEM) conducted their evaluation process for re-accreditation of the curriculum of the Academic Unit of Medicine (UAM), Autonomus University of Nayarit (UAN). On November 8, 2013 in an official ceremony, the rector was given recognition plaque. This fact puts the institution as the most important in undergraduate medical education in the state. This paper returns to the past and recovers some of its most important historical stages.

Evaluation of undergraduate medical education in Finnish community-oriented and traditional medical faculties: a 10-year follow-up

2000 ◽  
Vol 34 (12) ◽  
pp. 1016-1018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harri Hyppola ◽  
Esko Kumpusalo ◽  
Irma Virjo ◽  
Kari Mattila ◽  
Liisa Neittaanmaki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Undergraduate Medical Education ◽  
Medical Faculties

A Better Solution to the General Problem of Creation

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-162
Author(s):  
Jeremy W. Skrzypek
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
General Problem ◽  
The State ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Better Than

It is often suggested that, since the state of affairs in which God creates a good universe is better than the state of affairs in which He creates nothing, a perfectly good God would have to create that good universe. Making use of recent work by Christine Korgaard on the relational nature of the good, I argue that the state of affairs in which God creates is actually not better, due to the fact that it is not better for anyone or anything in particular. Hence, even a perfectly good God would not be compelled to create a good universe.

A model of the analysis of the dynamics and structure of socio-economic development (an example of the set of the largest Polish cities in the years 1998–2015)

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-37
Author(s):  
Lidia Mierzejewska ◽  
Jerzy Parysek
Keyword(s):  
Principal Component Analysis ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
The State ◽  
Geographical Research ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
State Of Affairs

Abstract The complexity of the reality studied by geographical research requires applying such methods which allow describing the state of affairs and ongoing changes in the best possible way. This study aims to present a model of research on selected aspects of the dynamics and structure of socio-economic development. The idea was to determine whether we deal with the process of reducing or widening the differences in terms of individual features. The article primarily pursues a methodological goal, and to a lesser extent an empirical one. The methodological objective of the paper was to propose and verify a multi-aspect approach to the study of development processes. The analyses carried out reveal that in terms of the features taken into account in the set of 24 of the largest Polish cities the dominating processes are those increasing differences between cities, which are unfavourable in the context of the adopted development policies aiming at reducing the existing disparities. In relation to the methodological objective, the results of the conducted research confirm the rationale of the application of the measures of dynamics and the feature variance to determine the character (dynamics and structure) of the socio-economic development process of cities. Comparatively less effective, especially for interpretation, is the application of principal component analysis and a multivariate classification, which is mainly the result of differences in the variance of particular features.

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