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   

文献检索课网络化考核初探   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

甄旭  张宇宏  季全芝 《现代图书情报技术》2003,(Z1)

通过对文献检索课考核方法的分析 ,提出网络化考核的模式 ,对所研制开发的“科技文献检索课考试管理系统”的技术实现及系统功能进行介绍  相似文献   

Authorware的应用技巧四则     

杨敬波  李传叶 《烟台职业学院学报》2003,9(3):42-43

Authorware是由Macromedia公司推出的一种使用方便、功能强大的多媒体制作软件 ,在课件制作过程中有着不可替代的作用。本文给出了四种在Authorware应用过程中的技巧。  相似文献   

网络环境下的主题标引工作   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

李育嫦 《大学图书情报学刊》2003,21(1):73-75

探讨了网络环境下编目人员应如何充分利用计算机编目的特点及网络优势来做好主题标引工作，满足读检索的需要，具体做法是：转变编目思想，降低检索难度，提高标引深度，主题标引要一致。  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   

浅谈网络环境下的信息检索效率   总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5  

龚蛟腾 《四川图书馆学报》2003,(4):8-10

网络环境下，信息检索效率主要是指检全率和检准率，它们之间存在互逆、互顺等关系。许多因素影响着检索效率，文章提出了提高检索效率的各种策略，并且展望了其发展趋势。  相似文献   

我国文献计量学论文的主题分布研究   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

熊滨 《江西图书馆学刊》2003,33(4):64-66

从主题分析和关键词分析的角度对我国献计量学论的主题内容进行了归纳和分类，以期深入认识该领域献的现状及其发展水平，明确该学科今后的发展重点和方向。  相似文献