Covid-19: Emerging Considerations for Body Sourcing and Handling. A Perspective View from Nigeria     

Izuchukwu Azuka Okafor  Terkuma Chia 《Anatomical sciences education》2021,14(2):154-162

The current Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic has spread to about 220 countries of the world and has resulted in a significant number of deaths globally. Infections are still on the rise, and the impact on the global death rate could be devastating. There are fears over the likely impact of a large number of deaths on body sourcing and handling of cadavers for teaching and research. Historically, epidemics come with several challenges and have often led to some level of negligence of ethical practices and health and safety regulations associated with body sourcing and handling. The authors highlighted some emerging problems in this article, focusing on Africa and Nigeria in particular. These problems include a higher risk of coronavirus exposure for body handlers, shortage of cadavers for teaching and learning, a lack of standard regulations leading to unethical body sourcing and handling, and a lack of monitoring and collaboration needed for a well-coordinated Covid-19 pandemic response strategy. If these issues are ignored, the previous gains made in anatomical ethical practices may be destroyed. Some useful recommendations for policymaking geared toward prevention or curtailing these emerging issues have been instilled in this article.  相似文献   

The Unintentional Effects on Body Donation Programs of a Competency-Based Curriculum in Postgraduate Medical Education     

Geoffroy P.J.C. Noël  Joseph Dubé  Gabriel Venne 《Anatomical sciences education》2021,14(5):675-681

As medical programs place increasing importance on competency-based training and surgical simulations for residents, anatomy laboratories, and body donation programs find themselves in a position of adapting to changing demands. To better assess the demand for “life-like” cadaveric specimens and evaluate the possible impacts that competency-based medical education could have upon the body donation program of McGill University, Canada, the authors tracked, over the course of the last 10 years, the number of soft-embalmed specimens, along with the number of teaching sessions and the residents enrolled in competency-based programs that are using cadaveric material. The results reveal that the number of soft-embalmed specimens used within residency training increased from 5 in 2009 to 35 in 2019, representing an increase from 6% of bodies to 36.5% of the total number of body donors embalmed in this institution. Correspondingly, the number of annual teaching sessions for residents increased from 19 in 2012 to 116 in 2019. These increases in teaching are correlated with increasing number of residents enrolled in competency-based programs over the last 3 years (Pearson r ranging from 0.9705 to 0.9903, and R² ranging from 0.9418 to 0.9808). Those results suggest that the new skill-centered curricula which require residents to perform specific tasks within realistic settings, exhibit a growing demand for “life-like” cadaveric specimens. Institutions’ body donation programs must, therefore, adapt to those greater need for cadaveric specimens, which presents many challenges, ranging from the logistical to the ethical.  相似文献   

A Bioethos for Bodies: Respecting a Priceless Resource     

Thomas H. Champney 《Anatomical sciences education》2019,12(4):432-434

The value that willed body donors provide to medical education is priceless. Their precious gift helps to teach anatomy, spatial relationships between morphological structures, anatomical variation, and professionalism to medical students in a way that plastic models, podcasts, and lectures cannot. They are also an important resource for medical research and a wide variety of postgraduate training opportunities. While many body donation programs throughout the world are nonprofit organizations, there are body donation companies in the United States that sell donors for-profit. These “body brokers” have accumulated large profits from this business. It is incongruous that others would profit from such a priceless, freely donated gift. To prevent this incongruity, it is proposed that the international anatomical community develop a normative culture (a bioethos) for body donation programs. This would involve the conscious and systematic development of ethical principles for the day-to-day policies and practices of institutions that collect and use human bodies. With the development of this bioethos, a cultural shift in how donors are treated would occur and, over time, this would become the normal practice. These principles would become fundamental and foundational for the procurement and use of priceless human tissues.  相似文献   

奇效骨伤散在治疗老年运动性骨损伤中的应用     

程志  李祈谦  李映浩 《体育科技》2003,24(2):28-29

老年运动性骨损伤是近期逐渐增多的疾患 ,本门诊部近 1年半以来接诊此类病人 38例 ,应用外敷自拟奇效骨伤散为主进行治疗 ,可迅速使骨折端达到牢靠连接 ,解除制动进行功能锻炼 ,肢体功能恢复快。与常规骨损伤疗效相比 ,疗程显著缩短 ,具快捷安全、方便经济、适用范围广等特点。优良率达 10 0 % ,且无明显并发症及后遗症。  相似文献   

莫霍伊·纳吉的构成主义摄影实践与现代设计教育     

段海龙 《苏州市职业大学学报》2003,14(4):118-120

设计作为提高产品高附加价值的重要手段,在受到社会普遍重视的同时,也带来了我国设计教育的繁荣。但是由于各种原因,形成了当前我国设计教育层次良莠不齐的现状。构成主义摄影的杰出代表莫霍伊·纳吉作为世界上第一所完全为发展设计教育而建立的设计学院包豪斯的一位重要人物,他对现代设计教育做出了突出贡献,在摄影表达可能性上也进行了积极有效的尝试与实践,本文针对上述问题进行论述,希望能给我们当代的设计教育带来启迪。  相似文献   

信息时代的医学资料室与人文精神   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

谭耀辉 《图书馆论坛》2003,23(2):42-43

针对信息时代技术主义的上亢和医疗行业中一些有违人愿的现象，认为医学资料室在高扬人文精神的同时应倡导医学人道精神、善美人格精神、敬业奉献精神和开拓、进取、创新精神。  相似文献   

从基础教育与高等教育课程发展与人才递进的关系问题--略谈我国基础教育中体育与健康课程改革的程序问题     

陶于  杨祖辉 《南京体育学院学报(社会科学版)》2003,17(6):19-21

就我国基础教育课程改革体育与健康课程的构建问题,提出了基础教育课程改革与高等教育课程改革的程序问题,指出了我国高等教育课程改革的滞后现象。  相似文献   

青少年篮球运动员基本技战术调练中的几个问题   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

胡亚丽 《沈阳体育学院学报》2003,(3):109-110

通过调研和资料分析 ,指出我国青少年篮球运动员基本技战术训练中存在的主要问题是教练员对基本技术动作训练要求不严等 ,并提出相关解决方法 ,供同行参考。  相似文献   

试论高校基本建设投资管理     

龙江英 《贵阳金筑大学学报》2006,(2)

基本建设投资管理是基本建设质量、投资、工期的三大管理目标之一,也是降低工程建设成本,提高基本建设投资效益的重要手段。高校基本建设投资体制正在发生重大改革,政府投资比率仍然很大,如何搞好基本建设投资管理,努力节约建设资金,提高投资效益,是一个越来越重要的课题。  相似文献   

人口可持续发展的基本点     

王少怡 《贵阳金筑大学学报》2004,(1):11-14

人口包括数量、质量、结构三个因素。从我国人口实际出发，人口可持续发展的基本点是：大力控制人口数量，提高人口素质，调整人口结构，实行以人口数量控制为主，控制、提高、调整相结合，达到适度人口目标。  相似文献