For fledgling medical students, slicing into their first cadaver can be an important rite of passage. They often enter the anatomy lab as skittish new trainees and leave it as self-assured future ...

This question originally appeared on Quora. Answer by Laszlo B. Tamas, neurosurgeon: My medical school was McGill in Montreal. We had nice, modern medical science and administrative buildings, but the ...

The room is abuzz with conversation, questions and an occasional electric saw. At raised tables, trios of gowned men and women tweeze and scalpel their way through a human pelvis, sinew by sinew.

When medical students have finished their study and practice on cadavers, they often hold a respectful memorial service to honor these bodies donated to science. But the ceremonies at one medical ...

AMES, Iowa – In a recent class session devoted to reviewing the components of a monogastric digestive system, Alexandra Else-Keller reminded an animal science student how to position her fingers as ...

The sell-out show involving the dissection of real organs is back – and this time you can have a go yourself. Anatomy Lab Live is a touring event which had two dates in February at the Cuttle Bridge ...

Several days ago, we were fortunate to get a tour of the gross anatomy lab here at Drexel University College of Medicine. And by gross, I don't mean disgusting - I mean what the medical world terms ...

Dinner and a dissection anyone? Would you have the stomach for enjoying a two-course dinner and then watching a human body being cut up? Not only that, but you then put on a surgical gown and get to ...