Body Donation, Teaching, and Research in Dissection Rooms in Spain in Times of Covid-19.

ABSTRACT: The state of alarm due to Covid-19 pandemic in Spain stopped all educational and most university research activities. The Spanish Anatomical Society (SAE) Consensus Expert Group on Body Donations piloted a study based on a questionnaire to know the status of body donations and dissection activities during the lockdown, as well as the future implications of Covid-19 pandemic for body donation programs and anatomy teaching. The questionnaire results show that Spanish Universities refused body donations and stopped all dissection research and teaching. The Covid-19 expected influence on anatomy teaching was referred to the increase in teaching workforce and resources required to apply the new safety measures to future practical activities, as well as to prepare and adapt teaching material for

SUBMITTER: Manzanares-Cespedes MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8250704 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature