Walk around the South Campus or peek into the Health Sciences Library during the first summer session each year and you’re sure to see them, dressed in blue or green scrubs and toting copies of “Grant ...

September 17, 2004 • Getting into medical school is the easy part. Making it through the first day of gross anatomy lab is where it gets hard. In part one of a series following first-year medical ...

Many health care providers will tell you that of all the courses they took in school, gross anatomy was, by far, the most meaningful. Now, advanced technologies are making that experience even richer.

NEW YORK — The first things my eyes land on are the leg bones. Thin, sinewy strips of muscle and skin cling delicately to the femurs, tibias and fibulas. The feet have more flesh on them. And toenails ...

I first learned of the Mütter Museum when I saw Gretchen Worden’s enthusiastic description of her job as curator on Errol Morris’ First Person. As Morris focused offbeat camera angles on her, she ...

The core curriculum of the MS in Applied Anatomy program includes four courses that represent 17 credit hours: gross anatomy, histology, neuroanatomy, and embryology. Students typically take these ...

Gross anatomy students at the University of Maryland Medical School are nearing final exams, and as they unwrap their cadavers on one of the last days in the lab, it's clear that a lot of work has ...

In THE GROSS LAB, you will find rows and rows of cadavers. Many people would consider this an apt description of the “icky” things found here. But this is not what the “gross” refers to. Rather, gross ...

A smart first-year med student takes nothing seriously, except the pursuit of his Gross Anatomy (human dissection) lab partner. It's up to her and their teacher to find a way to convince him to take ...