Diane
26-03-2004, 06:58 PM
In the spring issue of the national Canadian Physiotherapy Association newsletter I saw an ad inviting participants for a 6-day intensive dissection of two cadavers, limited to 16 people, sponsored by a group of alternative health care practitioners. The ad fairly leaped off the page. I've never seen anything like it before in a PT publication.
I was thrown into a memory of being a squeamish 17 year old, of dusty anatomy labs, seemingly ancient anatomy professors who spoke English with great difficulty, casually handling bits of human body as though there was truly nothing creepy about that... I remember thinking, I have to go through this to be a physiotherapist? We were presented with cadavers that the med students had already dissected, bits of muscles flapping from bone, nothing to grasp onto, no framework to attach this scene to. At the time I experienced just ...exposure.
A year later it was over, and I felt I had learned nothing except how to contain my own dismay with how unappealing a learning situation it had been. How unprepared this young girl was at the time to appreciate this opportunity she had been given to see human form and its implied function. Yes, I passed anatomy, but a long time went by before pictures in anatomy books made me long to know more about the three dimensional reality of the body.
The chance to do this workshop has proven to be irresistible. I have signed up and sent in a deposit.
What have been others' experiences re: anatomy? Was it taught in your school with cadaver dissection? Is it still available to PT students as part of core cirriculum? World wide? Does anyone think it irrelevant?
Diane
I was thrown into a memory of being a squeamish 17 year old, of dusty anatomy labs, seemingly ancient anatomy professors who spoke English with great difficulty, casually handling bits of human body as though there was truly nothing creepy about that... I remember thinking, I have to go through this to be a physiotherapist? We were presented with cadavers that the med students had already dissected, bits of muscles flapping from bone, nothing to grasp onto, no framework to attach this scene to. At the time I experienced just ...exposure.
A year later it was over, and I felt I had learned nothing except how to contain my own dismay with how unappealing a learning situation it had been. How unprepared this young girl was at the time to appreciate this opportunity she had been given to see human form and its implied function. Yes, I passed anatomy, but a long time went by before pictures in anatomy books made me long to know more about the three dimensional reality of the body.
The chance to do this workshop has proven to be irresistible. I have signed up and sent in a deposit.
What have been others' experiences re: anatomy? Was it taught in your school with cadaver dissection? Is it still available to PT students as part of core cirriculum? World wide? Does anyone think it irrelevant?
Diane