I know this topic always comes up but....

**Amz** · 29-01-2007, 02:28 PM

What are the existing students opinion of cadaver dissection not being part of peninsula's course?
Peninsula is my top choice though, but was just having a little think about this topic.

**elliethesnowfox** · 30-01-2007, 01:54 PM

Originally Posted by John Tooke in an interview with the BMJ

"One criticism is that if students don't cut up dead bodies they won't understand death." Tooke thinks this is nonsense; he wants students to understand bereavement from their experience in the clinic not the dissecting room. Dealing with pickled corpses that bear only a limited resemblance to living bodies may be a rite of passage, but as a way of learning anatomy it compares poorly with sophisticated models, imaging, computer graphics, and the like. "As a doctor I have to interpret the anatomy of the patient in front of me from x ray, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging." Not from distant memories of dissection

'Nuff said!

**vikk** · 30-01-2007, 02:22 PM

Thanks Ellie that is really well found

It strengthens my belief that PMS will prepare future Doctors now, for what they will be working with later on

As i read on the prospectus, giving an easy transition from studies to work

**feluda_uk** · 30-01-2007, 02:43 PM

elliethesnowfox baisically shot any chance of an argument in this thread, dead, hahah well done

**Amz** · 30-01-2007, 07:10 PM

haha yup very well said. Like i said before it was never an issue for me, but just thought id have a topic about it. Woooohooo can't wait till sept/oct this year!

**iceman_jondoe** · 30-01-2007, 07:18 PM

neither can i! seriously looking forward to it...is it september or october when we start? do you know the exact month?

**Amz** · 30-01-2007, 09:06 PM

hehe, congrats on ur offer! I'm actually not sure when exactly we start coz on track it says sept, but in the letter i got today it says oct. lol

**feluda_uk** · 30-01-2007, 10:21 PM

well i would go with the letter, its just that majority start at sept, ide go with october oooh i should change me sig aswell!

**Danny B** · 31-01-2007, 06:44 PM

What about practicing surgery- surely that is onething that dissection is useful for...- how do peninsula teach that?

**Spencer Wells** · 31-01-2007, 07:11 PM

No medical school will ever teach the practice of surgery to its students (for one, house officers don't perform surgery and secondly there would be no way of examining it) - that only comes in the postgraduate training years.