Many health care providers will tell you that of all the courses they took in school, gross anatomy was, by far, the most meaningful. Now, advanced technologies are making that experience even richer.

When humorist and writer Mara Altman was 19 and attending college at UCLA, she learned something about herself which, she says, felt devastating at the time. It happened while she was flirting with a ...

The core curriculum of the MS in Applied Anatomy program includes four courses that represent 17 credit hours: gross anatomy, histology, neuroanatomy, and embryology. Students typically take these ...

Mara Altman’s “Gross Anatomy” asserts that women should never be ashamed when it comes to addressing societal taboos about women’s bodies. (Photo from Penguin Random House There are only three ...

INDIANAPOLIS — First- and second-year medical students are logging some serious hours in the Indiana University School of ...

Cameron University’s Sciences Complex has lab facilities that are vital to any student who decides to major in any scientific field, and now, one of those facilities is about to be taken to a whole ...

A digital anatomy table programmed with dynamic medical simulations is changing how RIT physician assistant students learn about the human body. Three-dimensional simulations modeled on real cadavers ...

The Master's of Science in Anatomical Sciences (MS-ANSC) degree at UAB is a four-semester, 18 month program designed to produce skilled teachers of anatomy. Since 2005, a nationwide need for anatomy ...

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CHICAGO — Fifteen-year-old Donna Youssefnia approached the cadaver with the confidence of a medical student. "I touched the heart, the lungs, the small intestines, and the large intestines," said ...