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Can anyone tell me if there are any advantages to having an OT program located on a medical school campus? Is there a different type of energy in comparison to those programs that are not?
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Hey I know this is a couple months after your response but hopefully you will see this. I go to Nova Southeastern and all of us are combined in the health professions building ( OT/PT/AA/Med students/Optometry). We had Anatomy our first semester and the med students had already taken it. So, since there was a med school, we spent our lab time studying cadavers that the med students has dissected for us, and they also were our lab TA's. It was so extremely helpful, and I cannot imagine learning the human body without cadavers or the help of the med students. I really don't think there are any disadvantages to going to an OT program that is intertwined with a med school. Everybody in our building has to wear scrubs (each program wears a different color) and everybody is focused on studying the same material.
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wow! i'd love to do anatomy with cadavers. definitely seems like the best way to learn. what's AA? i just keep thinking alcoholics anonymous...
There are programs that do a cadaver lab that aren't attached to a medical school or campus - like the program I go to. The university where my program is has no medical program, though they do have a bunch of the other health sciences; however, the PT and OT programs are off campus in a separate building. We share the cadaver lab with each other, and although we get to study off the PT department's bodies, we also got our own, and we did the dissection (as the PTs do). I actually really enjoyed dissection, which was good for some of my classmates who did not 😉. Everyone was required to help dissect at least a couple of times, but as the semester wore on, it was basically those of us who enjoyed it/were good at it who did most of the work.
