“I have wanted to be a doctor since I was young,” says George Novan M.D., an infectious diseases physician and Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education at the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine.

While instructing medical students in anatomy, the great Renaissance physician Andreus Vesalius was in the habit of sketching muscles and nerves on the dissecting table. Like his forebears, he ...

The six first-year med students approach the table, the place where for the next seven weeks they'll spend so much time, it will seep into their dreams. They brace themselves to meet him. Him, their ...

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The class began playfully enough, with instructor Jennifer Hellier kneading a ball of light brown clay and rolling it between the palms of her hands. But then, as she and four college students ...

iPads in hand (carefully sealed in Ziploc bags), students at New York University's School of Medicine are taking "Anatomy 2.0." Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg is the former executive producer and ...

Maddy Galvan, a senior at Esperanza High School in Anaheim, removed a drape from the exam table to reveal the patient, Carl, and with the touch of a stylus she removed his gall bladder. A few more ...

The editors of the Journal, in the interest of basic medical education, have been watching over the years the efforts of medical schools to obtain human bodies for dissection, and have at intervals ...

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