Bute Medical School, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Anat Sci Educ. 2010 Mar-Apr;3(2):97-100. doi: 10.1002/ase.136.
Pathology and anatomy are both sciences that contribute to the foundations of a successful medical career. In the past decade, medical education has undergone profound changes with the development of a core curriculum combined with student selected components. There has been a shift from discipline-based teaching towards problem-based learning. Both anatomy and pathology are perceived to have suffered from this educational shift. The challenge is to introduce methods of learning for these subjects into an integrated student-centered curriculum. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of pathology in 12 donor cadavers in the dissecting room of the Bute Medical School, University of St Andrews. All of the cadavers had multiple pathologies (between three to four conditions) ranging from common to rare disorders. A number of prostheses and surgical interventions were also noted. This small study confirms that cadaveric dissection provides an excellent opportunity for the integration of anatomy, pathology, and clinical medicine into the early clinical training of undergraduate medical students. The identification of disease in a cadaver provides an excellent introduction to the gross features of a disease process, but does not substitute for the detailed study of a process later in the curriculum.
病理学和解剖学都是为成功的医学职业奠定基础的科学。在过去的十年中，随着核心课程与学生自选课程的结合，医学教育发生了深刻的变化。教学模式已经从基于学科的教学转变为基于问题的学习。解剖学和病理学都被认为受到了这种教育转变的影响。挑战在于将这些科目的学习方法引入到以学生为中心的综合课程中。本研究的目的是确定在圣安德鲁斯大学布特医学院解剖室的 12 具捐赠尸体中病理学的流行程度。所有尸体都有多发性病变（三到四种病症），既有常见疾病，也有罕见疾病。还注意到一些假体和外科干预措施。这项小型研究证实，尸体解剖为将解剖学、病理学和临床医学整合到医学生的早期临床培训中提供了极好的机会。在尸体中发现疾病为疾病过程的大体特征提供了极好的介绍，但不能替代以后课程中对该过程的详细研究。
