A quality improvement apprenticeship: Gross anatomy in the time of Covid‐19

Abstract

In a historical sense, the study of anatomy has long been a tactile, physical, and extant art: using the hands and eyes to study the human body, often in the form of a theatrical spectacle based on cadaver dissection (de Carvalho Filho et al., 2021;Brenna, 2022).Well into the modern era, little has changed about learning anatomical sciences. Students (university students of all levels, including professional students of medicine and science) study under skilled masters (anatomy faculty) in small-group settings to learn the form of the body. Many of those students, especially doctoral students, may go on to train others in the fine art of dissection, perpetuating the well-established tradition of learning in a master/journeyman/ apprentice model.