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.

Sensitisation needs to begin early in medical education, and the dissection hall is the first place in the long journey of a ...

Students at a New Jersey high school can virtually dissect the human body, thanks to the purchase of cutting edge technology that is typically available only to medical students. Cadaver dissection is ...

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 ...

Every Friday afternoon, 60 students cram into three laboratory spaces. Those labs have a distinct smell: ethanol and other chemicals, preserving four human cadavers. More than half of the 60 students ...