The undergraduate curriculum is the starting point for the doctors of the future. It should provide a strong foundation for learning and practice as a junior doctor and beyond. In the modern era, anatomy teaching, as with all other areas of the curriculum, has needed to be tailored to fulfill this outcome effectively. Traditionally, anatomy has been taught by a method based on dissection of the human body. Dissection of the human body during an anatomy course raises questions about invasion of privacy, issues of introducing dying and death appropriately to medical students as well as issues of cost and practicality. These issues have been the subjects of much debate.