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   

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   

机械、仪表工业类核心期刊的引文分析   总被引：10，自引：0，他引：10  

高非 《情报学报》2001,20(2):247-251

对《中文核心期刊要目总览》收录的机械、仪表工业类 2 5种核心期刊中 1998年所载论文的引文进行调查统计。对平均载文量、引文的数量、文献类型、语种分布、年代分布和各种中文文献被引频次等有关信息进行定量分析 ,客观地对该类 2 5种核心期刊的引文水平和一般规律进行综合评价  相似文献   

学术期刊的目次及其编排   总被引：4，自引：3，他引：1  

赵智岗  陈英  Cheng Ying 《编辑学报》2001,13(3):155-156

针对学术期刊这一特定属类，分析了目次的功能、特点，给出6种常见的目次编排位置；依据侧重点的异同，归结了4种编目方法，逐一阐释各编排方法的特点及适用范围。  相似文献   

关于高校学报栏目设置的几点思考     

赵晓洁 《大同职业技术学院学报》2004,(2)

新颖独到的栏目设置,是提高高校学报质量的重要途径。各高校学报应根据本校的学科建设规划,设置重点栏目,办出各自的特色,为提高本校的教学和科研水平作出应有的贡献。  相似文献   

46种中华医学会系列杂志的审稿与退修程序分析   总被引：8，自引：4，他引：4  

李贵存  刘小梅 《编辑学报》2002,14(3):176-177

为了解委托办中华医学会系列杂志在审稿方面存在的问题,探讨改进措施,以规范审稿制度与规则,抽检46种期刊的46期,发现不少共同性的问题.建议:参加终审定稿会的人数不得少于5人,要有记录,要有签字;退修并不是次数越多越好,编辑要尽可能地将专家审稿意见、编委会的终审意见消化吸收,加上自己的意见一次性转告作者,以便作者通盘考虑,全面修改.  相似文献   

循证医学和医学论文中统计学问题编辑鉴定的必要性   总被引：11，自引：4，他引：7  

杨扬  沈志超 《编辑学报》2001,13(2):77-78

介绍循证医学这一新兴学说及其对21世纪临床医学的影响，指出为适应这一转变，开展医学论言语中统计学问题的编辑鉴定研究的必要性，开展此项研究可以：1）普及医学统计知识，2）提高临床与科研水平，3）提高作者撰写与阅读能力，4）提高医学期刊质量，5）丰富编辑学研究的内涵，并指出了编辑鉴审研究的初步思路。  相似文献