Abstract
At Shiga University of Medical Science, we have recently started practice visits to human dissection classes for co-medical students. As the number of co-medical schools that including an increase in human dissection classes, various problems are therefore expected to occur. We therefore established an educational method to optimize the effectiveness of such classes. For PT / OT students and the attending teachers who participated in dissection classes in 2010, we conducted an investigation regarding the efficacy of our teaching method. According to the survey results, many favorable opinions were obtained about our presentation and seminar methods, in which we showed the learning points in advance of the dissection classes. Such learning was found to not only increase student motivation, but it also enabled students to better understand the cadaver donation system. These classes are taught to students the importance of maintaining privacy and secrecy at the highest levels. Therefore, it became clear that our teaching methods, for PT / OT students, to be extremely effective. According to this survey, many PT/OT students preferred locomotor system oriented training, and requested an increase in the length of time for such dissection classes. We therefore plan to continually improve on the our program so that PT / OT students may obtain the most benefits from such human dissection classes.
