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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.
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 .
McNicoll L, Shield R, Ritter D, Besdine RW. Cadaver Treasure Hunt: Introducing Geriatrics Concepts in the Anatomy Class. J Am Ger Soc 2012:60(5);962-6.
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, and . Cadaver Treasure Hunt Faculty Guide. POGOe - Portal of Geriatrics Online Education; 2009 Available from: https://pogoe.org/taxonomy/term/204