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Cadaver Treasure Hunt Faculty Guide

Cadaver Treasure Hunt Faculty Guide
Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University
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Product ID: 20524

Abstract: 

This faculty guide is designed to assist medical schools interested in implementing the Cadaver Treasure Hunt anatomy course program. The program consists of 2 components: (1) a lecture at the very beginning of medical school introducing them to geriatrics, using the extreme old age of their cadavers and their death certificate diagnoses as a window to the importance of aging; and (2) a workshop in the anatomy lab in which geriatricians review the gross anatomical findings of the cadavers and provide important clinical perspectives. This low-cost, high-yield geriatrics intervention has been well received by Brown medical students; 82% rated the experience very positively.

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Educational objectives: 

Goals of the program: 1. To introduce geriatrics early in the medical education curriculum. 2. To use the demographic information and the gross anatomical findings of the cadavers as teaching points for normal aging and common medical problems in aging. 3. To provide a medical and clinical context for students about how their cadavers may have lived and died. 4. To remind students of the sacrifice and gift that the cadavers had provided to them. 5. To evaluate how this program influenced students’ perceptions of their cadavers.

Additional information/Special implementation requirements or guidelines: 

Collaboration with the anatomy course directors is a key component for scheduling the lecture and anatomy lab session. You will also need to obtain death certificate data.

Publications from, presentations from, and/or citations to this product: 

Presented at the May 2009 American Geriatrics Society Conference as a paper session as well as during the education methods swap session. McNicoll L, Nanda A, Besdine RW. Cadaver Treasure Hunt: Introducing Geriatrics Concepts in the Anatomy Class. J Am Geriatr Soc 2009:57 (Supplement); S8.

Gillespie, S. M. and Medina-Walpole, A. (2010, October). Teaching Undergraduate Geriatrics in the Anatomy Laboratory. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 58(10), 2000-2002. Also available online.

Date posted: 
Fri, 08/07/2009
Date last updated: 
Fri, 08/07/2009
CME credits available: 
No
Has this product been peer reviewed?: 
No
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Contact person/corresponding author: 
Dr Lynn McNicoll ([email protected])
Authors: 
Dr. Richard Besdine
Dr Lynn McNicoll
Dr. Aman Nanda
NLM Citation:
Besdine, R, McNicoll, L and Nanda, A. Cadaver Treasure Hunt Faculty Guide. POGOe - Portal of Geriatric Online Education; 2009 Available from: http://www.pogoe.org/productid/20524
APA Citation:
Besdine, R, McNicoll, L and Nanda, A. (2009). Cadaver Treasure Hunt Faculty Guide. POGOe - Portal of Geriatric Online Education. Retrieved August 20, 2011 from http://www.pogoe.org/productid/20524

Comments

Thu, 10/08/2009 - 9:14pm

Very good design of the program. It will give students a good appreciation for the geriatric population they will face as geriatrists. The use of cadavers for that purpose is a wonderful idea. I teach gross anatomy and we should take the oportunity to teach clinical oriented instructions.