Cadaverish Tales

The sole purpose of these ligaments is to make it difficult for medical students to dissect. (And something about defining the limits of movement.)

Real Body Trumps Netter

I never shared how my last surgery rotation ended up not being too moot after all. Although the Physicians’ College exams meant we had no official theatre list, our consultant was called in to perform a neck exploration on my very last day on the rotation. Because I was falling in with a group younger

Neurosciences 371: The first dissection

South African medical students are very fortunate in that we always have access to cadavers for dissection. Many western countries, as I have been told, simply don’t have these available to medical students. My class started dissecting in September 2009. The new syllabus is all about integration, so where in the past curricula students spent