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 ...

Daniela Krahe likely will never know the tall gentleman’s name. He was dead when they met, so she didn’t get the chance to ask. She’ll never know where the man grew up or whether he had siblings. She ...

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 ...

On a Thursday afternoon in August 2008, Joe Thurman was sitting at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage museum in Oklahoma City, wearing his best suit and staring anxiously at the three empty ...

An increasing number of medical schools are incorporating digital dissections into their curriculum. But the University of Cincinnati is not one of them. It says this is a case where technology is not ...

“There is no replacement for physical dissection,” said Lindsey Pisani, Anatomy Laboratory manager and administrator of the Anatomical Donation Program. “Models and virtual tables are amazing, but it ...