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Age modulates attitudes to whole body donation among medical students.
| Content Provider | World Health Organization (WHO)-Global Index Medicus |
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| Author | Perry, Gary F. Ettarh, Raj R. |
| Description | Country affiliation: Ireland Author Affiliation: Perry GF ( Anatomy Division, School of Medicine and Medical Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland.) |
| Abstract | Managing a whole body donor program is necessary for facilitating a traditional dissection-based anatomy curriculum in medicine and health sciences. Factors which influence body donations to medical science can therefore affect dissection-based anatomy teaching. In order to determine whether age influences the attitudes of medical students to donations, this study surveyed, by Likert-type questionnaires, first-year graduate-entry medical students attending a dissection-based anatomy course. In contrast to attitudes among younger traditional-entry medical students, initial support for whole body donation by an unrelated stranger (83.8%), a family member (43.2%) or by the respondent (40.5%) did not decrease among graduate-entry medical students after exposure to dissection although there was a significant shift in strength of support for donation by stranger. This suggests that older medical students do not readily modify their pre-established attitudes to the idea of whole body donation after exposure and experience with dissection. Initial ambivalence among respondents to the idea of donation by family member was followed by opposition to this type of donation. These findings demonstrate that age modulates the influences on a priori attitudes to whole body donation that exposure to dissection causes in younger medical students. |
| File Format | HTM / HTML |
| ISSN | 19359772 |
| Issue Number | 4 |
| Volume Number | 2 |
| e-ISSN | 19359780 |
| Journal | Anatomical Sciences Education |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Wiley |
| Publisher Date | 2009-07-01 |
| Publisher Place | United States |
| Access Restriction | One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) |
| Subject Keyword | Discipline Anatomy Altruism Anatomy Education Attitude Of Health Personnel Dissection Education, Medical, Undergraduate Gift Giving Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice Students, Medical Psychology Adult Age Factors Attitude To Death Cadaver Curriculum Emotions Family Relations Female Humans Interpersonal Relations Male Questionnaires Young Adult Journal Article |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Anatomy Histology Embryology |
