Human Anatomy and Embryology Unit, Department of Pathology and Experimental Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Minimally Invasive Foot and Ankle Society (MIFAS), Group of Research and Study in Minimally Invasive Surgery of the Foot (GRECMIP), Merignac, France.
Anat Sci Educ. 2021 Sep;14(5):562-571. doi: 10.1002/ase.2093. Epub 2021 Aug 27.
The state of alarm due to Covid-19 pandemic in Spain stopped all educational and most university research activities. The Spanish Anatomical Society (SAE) Consensus Expert Group on Body Donations piloted a study based on a questionnaire to know the status of body donations and dissection activities during the lockdown, as well as the future implications of Covid-19 pandemic for body donation programs and anatomy teaching. The questionnaire results show that Spanish Universities refused body donations and stopped all dissection research and teaching. The Covid-19 expected influence on anatomy teaching was referred to the increase in teaching workforce and resources required to apply the new safety measures to future practical activities, as well as to prepare and adapt teaching material for online-only programs. The application of reinforced safety measures was expected to be perceived by the respondent's students as a gain in teaching quality, while the transformation of the anatomy courses in online-only programs will be perceived as a quality decrease. The respondent's concerns about future institutional implications of the pandemic were related to increased costs of the adaptation of the facilities and the reinforced preventive measures, as well as the eventual decrease in donations. The complete lockdown applied to dissection rooms was not justified by scientific evidence and represented a break of the confidence deposed in the institutions by the donors. A consensus is required for the adoption of a renewed, comprehensive protocol for present and future body donations including the evidence Covid-19 pandemic has contributed to create.
由于新冠疫情在西班牙引发的警报，所有教育活动和大部分大学研究活动都已停止。西班牙解剖学会（SAE）捐赠专家小组进行了一项基于问卷的研究，旨在了解封锁期间的遗体捐赠和解剖活动状况，以及新冠疫情对遗体捐赠计划和解剖教学的未来影响。问卷调查结果显示，西班牙大学拒绝接受遗体捐赠，并停止了所有解剖研究和教学。预计新冠疫情对解剖教学的影响将体现在未来实践活动所需的教学人员和资源的增加，以及针对在线课程准备和调整教学材料方面。应用强化安全措施预计将被学生视为教学质量的提高，而将解剖课程完全转换为在线课程则将被视为教学质量的下降。受访者对未来大流行对机构的影响的担忧涉及到设施适应和强化预防措施成本的增加，以及最终捐赠的减少。对解剖室进行全面封锁没有科学依据，这代表了对捐赠者所信任的机构的信心的破坏。需要达成共识，通过采用新的、全面的协议来处理目前和未来的遗体捐赠事宜，包括新冠疫情带来的影响。
