Health professionals revisit human anatomy lab
During a recent workshop, a group of physical and occupational therapists sat in an RIT classroom to discuss back, arm and leg joint structures. Then they moved to CBET's world-class anatomical dissection suite, where they reviewed details of human anatomy from prosected materials and took part personally in performing more detailed dissections of joints, muscles and ligaments.
Professor Richard Doolittle, Ph.D., Head of RIT's Biological Science and Medical Science Departments, has led many such workshops, where allied health professionals earn continuing education credits for returning to the human gross anatomy lab.
“Participants can come back to the cadaver side to learn after they’ve had a chance to mature as clinicians, irrespective of their areas of expertise and focus,” Doolittle says.
The opportunity to investigate normal human anatomy is especially rewarding to practicing clinicians already experienced at treating musculoskeletal diseases and injuries, he adds.
“I had a hard time getting them out of the lab at the end of the day!”
