With donations of cadavers falling, medical students may lack 'fundamental knowledge' of human anatomy, says a UBC medical professor.
Some Canadian medical and dental schools are facing a shortage of a major tool for anatomical education: cadavers.
“The students will lack a sudden knowledge of the human body,” he told CTV’s Your Morning Thursday. “I know there are alternatives all over the world. I know that other med schools use technologies. But our students who have graduated from programs using cadavers will tell you there is no substitute. There is no alternative to [the real thing].”
“The fact that they could see what fundamentally is similar to a human that they will be working with throughout their lives [is crucial],” he said. “All the organs and the nerves and the muscles are exactly in the same place. The normal spatial relationships that exist in a human body also exist in a cadaver.”
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