On the other side of the ledger were career prospects, better remuneration, and losing my animal dissection skills.
As students continued to develop their dissection skills along with a sense of mastery, motivation was fuelled, with reflective practices leading to continual improvement in the task [ 2, 13].
Dissection skills can be easily learnt and standard fixatives such as formalin, which is suitable for most routine morphological applications, are cheap (e.g. US$1/500 ml ready-made formalin) in comparison to the costs of generating and breeding a new mouse line.
That may justify the slightly better performance of Greek students in the 2nd MCQ exam, as well as being more familiar with basic dissections (Skill 1), with no further significance.
With regard to wet lab skills' module, the mean score of in vivo dissections (Skill 1) before teaching was 0.23 out of 2 (min = 0, max = 1, and SD = 0.43) with a mean global rating (scale 0 4) of 1.2 (min = 1, max = 2, and SD = 0.41), versus postteaching mean = 1.21 out of 2 (min = 1, max = 2, and SD = 0.41) and mean global rating of 2.5 (min = 2, max = 3, and SD = 0.51, score 0 4).
Dissection builds spatial skills, manual dexterity and sense of touch.
Our goal was to design a vascular exposures course using fresh frozen cadavers to promote dissection and suturing skills, foster interaction with Vascular Surgery faculty, promote teamwork between residents, and measure the satisfaction of the residents with the course.
Dissection is a rarer skill.
It was in Paris, at the private academy presided over by Melchisedec Thévenot, that Stensen, better known as Steno, used his skill at dissection to refute Descartes's theories of the brain, and where, with Thévenot's encouragement, he and Swammerdam first turned their attention to the problems of generation.
Galen's advocacy of dissection, both to improve surgical skills and for research purposes, formed part of his self-promotion, but there is no doubt that he was an accurate observer.
CM participated in the mice tissue sampling and provided expert skills in mice dissection.
