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Lisa0123 said:
Does anyone know which optometry schools have students dissect a full cadaver in gross anatomy? Specifically UHCO or SCO? 🙂

Thanks!
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Not sure about either of the schools you mentioned, but Nova definitely does.
 
SUNY is a no. We have everything from the diaphragm up though. And a PhD. teacher that teaches anatomy at our school and at New York University School of Medicine.
 
Shnurek said:
SUNY is a no. We have everything from the diaphragm up though. And a PhD. teacher that teaches anatomy at our school and at New York University School of Medicine.
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So are your people cut in half when they are given to you guys? What do they do with the rest? I'm still warming up to the whole cadaver anatomy thing, but I think seeing half a body is weirder than a whole one.
 
Blondiechick919 said:
So are your people cut in half when they are given to you guys? What do they do with the rest? I'm still warming up to the whole cadaver anatomy thing, but I think seeing half a body is weirder than a whole one.
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You sound quite childish. Yes, "my people" are "cut in half"... I don't know what they do with the rest, give it to podiatry students? Hand/arm surgeons? Urologists?
 
Shnurek said:
You sound quite childish. Yes, "my people" are "cut in half"... I don't know what they do with the rest, give it to podiatry students? Hand/arm surgeons? Urologists?
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That wasn't my intention at all, I'm having a hard time with the whole cadaver thing and genuinely curious. It seems like a great thing to donate your body to science, so I was just wondering.
 
Blondiechick919 said:
That wasn't my intention at all, I'm having a hard time with the whole cadaver thing and genuinely curious. It seems like a great thing to donate your body to science, so I was just wondering.
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Ya you'll desensitize with time. We all do.
 
Blondiechick919 said:
That wasn't my intention at all, I'm having a hard time with the whole cadaver thing and genuinely curious. It seems like a great thing to donate your body to science, so I was just wondering.
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My undergraduate anatomy class had full cadavers. I was a little squeamish at first, but it didn't take long for that to become one of my favorite classes I've ever taken.

It's a pretty incredible experience to work on a real cadaver. Sorry, I don't know anything about optometry schools and cadavers.
 
tmoney35 said:
My undergraduate anatomy class had full cadavers. I was a little squeamish at first, but it didn't take long for that to become one of my favorite classes I've ever taken.

It's a pretty incredible experience to work on a real cadaver. Sorry, I don't know anything about optometry schools and cadavers.
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I am getting better as we have been in school for a month now, so I guess I'm "desensitizing". But I was expecting them to look like the pictures in my anatomy textbook, and boy was I wrong. Plus the smell of formaldehyde is enough to make anyone sick when you first experience it.
 
Nova def does. The DO students dissect them and take care of the messy part though
 
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