CHICAGO - Fifteen-year-old Donna Youssefnia approached the cadaver with the confidence of a medical student. "I touched the heart, the lungs, the small intestines, and the large intestines," said ...

Many health care providers will tell you that of all the courses they took in school, gross anatomy was, by far, the most meaningful. Now, advanced technologies are making that experience even richer.

Jennifer Addo Kaby (right) and Susan Kelly (left) became friends after Kelly’s father donated his body to a unique gross anatomy course that required students to communicate with the family of the ...

Dakota State University plans to open its first cadaver lab to biology students this fall, with a new course on human gross anatomy and cadaver dissection. In DSU’s six-year biology program review, ...

A digital anatomy table programmed with dynamic medical simulations is changing how RIT physician assistant students learn about the human body. Three-dimensional simulations modeled on real cadavers ...

For allied health professions, nursing, public health and other health education programs that accept students as undergraduates, the basic life sciences of biology and chemistry form part of the ...

With its butter-colored walls and multiple windows, the room itself is too medicinal, too sterilized and too well-lit to be spooky. But it's not the room, rather it's what is in the room that matters.

When humorist and writer Mara Altman was 19 and attending college at UCLA, she learned something about herself which, she says, felt devastating at the time. It happened while she was flirting with a ...

Dr. Dennis DePace has been with Drexel University College of Medicine, formerly Hahnemann Medical College, for more than 40 years as an anatomy professor. In this conversation, he shares his ...

GARY | The International Human Cadaver Prosection Program, a unique medical program held at the Indiana University School of Medicine – Northwest located in Gary, Ind., will take place July 30 through ...