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Bodies for Anatomy Education in Medical Schools: An Overview of the Sources of Cadavers Worldwide
The International Federation of Associations of Anatomists (IFAA) recommended in 2012 that only donated bodies be used for anatomy teaching and research. However, in many countries around the world, anatomists still depend on bodies that do not stem from voluntary donations by the deceased but, rath...
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Published for the Association of American Medical Colleges by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6112846/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29561275 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0000000000002227 |
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author | Habicht, Juri L. Kiessling, Claudia Winkelmann, Andreas |
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description | The International Federation of Associations of Anatomists (IFAA) recommended in 2012 that only donated bodies be used for anatomy teaching and research. However, in many countries around the world, anatomists still depend on bodies that do not stem from voluntary donations by the deceased but, rather, are “unclaimed.” A broad search of the literature was conducted to produce a baseline overview of the sources of cadavers used for anatomy teaching in undergraduate medical curricula on a global scale. Information from the literature search was supplemented with data from a 2016–2017 survey of selected senior local anatomists. Of 165 countries with medical schools, information was gathered for 71. In 22 (32%) of the 68 countries that use cadavers for anatomy teaching, body donation is the exclusive source of bodies. However, in most other countries, unclaimed bodies remain the main (n = 18; 26%) or exclusive (n = 21; 31%) source. Some countries import cadavers from abroad, mainly from the United States or India. In one country, bodies of executed persons are given to anatomy departments. The heterogeneous geographical distribution of body sources cannot easily be accounted for, but religion, culture, and folk beliefs about what should happen to bodies after death seem to play a role. Implementation of the IFAA recommendations still has a long way to go, but it is encouraging that functioning body donation programs exist on all continents and that there are examples of recent rises in donations and of anatomists initiating new donation programs. |
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spelling | pubmed-61128462018-09-13 Bodies for Anatomy Education in Medical Schools: An Overview of the Sources of Cadavers Worldwide Habicht, Juri L. Kiessling, Claudia Winkelmann, Andreas Acad Med Articles The International Federation of Associations of Anatomists (IFAA) recommended in 2012 that only donated bodies be used for anatomy teaching and research. However, in many countries around the world, anatomists still depend on bodies that do not stem from voluntary donations by the deceased but, rather, are “unclaimed.” A broad search of the literature was conducted to produce a baseline overview of the sources of cadavers used for anatomy teaching in undergraduate medical curricula on a global scale. Information from the literature search was supplemented with data from a 2016–2017 survey of selected senior local anatomists. Of 165 countries with medical schools, information was gathered for 71. In 22 (32%) of the 68 countries that use cadavers for anatomy teaching, body donation is the exclusive source of bodies. However, in most other countries, unclaimed bodies remain the main (n = 18; 26%) or exclusive (n = 21; 31%) source. Some countries import cadavers from abroad, mainly from the United States or India. In one country, bodies of executed persons are given to anatomy departments. The heterogeneous geographical distribution of body sources cannot easily be accounted for, but religion, culture, and folk beliefs about what should happen to bodies after death seem to play a role. Implementation of the IFAA recommendations still has a long way to go, but it is encouraging that functioning body donation programs exist on all continents and that there are examples of recent rises in donations and of anatomists initiating new donation programs. Published for the Association of American Medical Colleges by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2018-09 2018-03-20 /pmc/articles/PMC6112846/ /pubmed/29561275 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0000000000002227 Text en Copyright © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of the Association of American Medical Colleges. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CCBY-NC-ND) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) , where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal. |
spellingShingle | Articles Habicht, Juri L. Kiessling, Claudia Winkelmann, Andreas Bodies for Anatomy Education in Medical Schools: An Overview of the Sources of Cadavers Worldwide |
title | Bodies for Anatomy Education in Medical Schools: An Overview of the Sources of Cadavers Worldwide |
title_full | Bodies for Anatomy Education in Medical Schools: An Overview of the Sources of Cadavers Worldwide |
title_fullStr | Bodies for Anatomy Education in Medical Schools: An Overview of the Sources of Cadavers Worldwide |
title_full_unstemmed | Bodies for Anatomy Education in Medical Schools: An Overview of the Sources of Cadavers Worldwide |
title_short | Bodies for Anatomy Education in Medical Schools: An Overview of the Sources of Cadavers Worldwide |
title_sort | bodies for anatomy education in medical schools: an overview of the sources of cadavers worldwide |
topic | Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6112846/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29561275 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0000000000002227 |
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