dead people or dead animals??

Micci · Aug 23, 2005

Well that just got me thinking. Our school uses humans for anatomy. A few of our corpuses are about thirty years old but we just got two new ones this year, which is exciting because my class is the first one two use them.

Our school has both. The A&P cadaver classes are hard to get into. The returning students fill them up. I am going to take cadaver A&P2 in the spring. Even though I had completed the spring semester last year, I was not considered "returning" until about mid summer. Argh! I heard that the cadaver classes is much better than using dummies.

Saved_by_Grace · Aug 23, 2005

We had to do the cats. I also thought it's strange because our clients will be human after all and not a cat, but like you said we have similiar anatomies. I don't know that I'd want to do a cadaver either though. The cat was bad enough.

Achoo!, LPN · Aug 23, 2005

We have a cadaver. We get a new one every year.

allnurses Guide · Aug 23, 2005

We had male and female - new every class.

steph

NurCrystal22 · Aug 23, 2005

We used CATS!.... And I love kittens!

~Crystal

crb613, BSN, RN · Aug 23, 2005

We used cats, pigs, sheep, & cows. I learned a lot more this way vs looking at it in a book. I do wish we had cadavers.I love animals but ya gotta do what ya gotta do.

Fun2, BSN, RN · Aug 23, 2005

We had animals, but I wish we were able to use human cadavers. I always thought that only university medical students used cadavers. The first time I saw a comment from a community college student about her use of a cadaver, it took me by surprise.

However, I would much rather use an animal than a book's pictures.

oregonrene · Aug 23, 2005

We used a cat - one cat per table of 4 students, and used the same cats for all 3 quarters of A&P. I would have preferred a human cadaver, but my school did not offer that.

oregonrene · Aug 23, 2005

By the way, anybody read the book "Stiff?" It's all about the curious world of human cadavers. Very interesting reading! You can find it in the paperback bestsellers section at Borders.

HeartsOpenWide, RN · Aug 23, 2005

We have a cadaver. We get a new one every year.

Is your school expensive? We have three cadavers, Jonny, Delah and one other I can't remember the name, that have been at the school for about 30 years!. We just got two new ones this year. I wondered why we do not get one every year, I was told because they are expensive...even though the bodies are donated the school has to pay for all the preperations, embalming, shipping ect, and I guess that gets expensive!

allnurses Guide · Aug 23, 2005

Is your school expensive? We have three cadavers, Jonny, Delah and one other I can't remember the name, that have been at the school for about 30 years!. We just got two new ones this year. I wondered why we do not get one every year, I was told because they are expensive...even though the bodies are donated the school has to pay for all the preperations, embalming, shipping ect, and I guess that gets expensive!

I attended a community college where there were two new cadavers for every Anatomy class. The professor felt it was vitally important for students to be able to work on human beings and so used almost his entire budget for cadavers.

At the end of the class there wasn't much left and it was basically beef jerkyish ... can't imagine using a cadaver for more than one class, much less 30 years. :uhoh3:

steph