Studying Medicine or Dentistry

[charmanderp]

I would seriously rather be an unemployed Arts graduate than go through what you guys have mentioned haha. Serious props.

[Surgeon]

All of that sounds pretty awesome to me...

Can I sneak in to watch a dissection and go unnoticed?

[Russ]

At UoM you need to swipe yourself into the anatomy labs/dissection rooms etc. so you'll need to find a student who's willing to risk swiping you in lol

You should have gone to the anatomy museum on Open Day, it had similar stuff to what you'd see in dissection

[Surgeon]

so you'll need to find a student who's willing to risk swiping you in lol

*cough* I don't suppose you would be *cough*

Nah but on a serious note, I couldn't go to the open day unfortunately

[Russ]

erm, well, sorry but no. it'd be really obvious you weren't meant to be there and I'd rather not get banned from the labs over it

with the anatomy museum you might be able to convince someone to let you take a tour if you email the curator and be nice about it

[paulsterio]

The Monash anatomy museum is generally always open and you don't have to swipe anything to get in there - so I guess you can come and have a look.

[pi]

The Monash anatomy museum is generally always open and you don't have to swipe anything to get in there - so I guess you can come and have a look.

Pretty sure you can't just rock up

[paulsterio]

You can't but I walk through there all the time and there's nobody around to catch you

[pi]

You can't but I walk through there all the time and there's nobody around to catch you

Med students are allowed to do that haha, not sure what would happen if a random walked through Furthermore, you'd never get to see any cadavers anyway which makes the trip a bit pointless as the rest isn't that flashy imo.



Re: UoM, they have a MUCH better anatomy museum, and they can arrange public tours (groups) too http://www.mdhs.unimelb.edu.au/harrybrookesallenmuseum/access

[Jenny_2108]

Well what i find most confronting about dissections is the smell of the formaldehyde and the embalming fluid. My eyes and nose start to burn after awhile and i find it extremely unpleasant, and you smell afterwards. I find my hands smell afterwards even after wearing multiple gloves and washing them a dozen times. Then again i use my hands alot cause i find the muscles look better afterwards if i seperate the fascia with my fingers rather than the scissors and scalpel, also faster. I don't find the dissection itself confronting, which is good i guess, some of the girls cringe when i shove my fingers between the fascia and muscle lol. Oh a part that was both confronting and surreal was when i sawed through the clavicle to remove the whole arm from the cadaver. I also thought id mention that not every med program in australia has a dissection component. Some just involve examining prossections, one of the privileges of melb uni apparently (which we are constantly reminded of).

Which year in Uni do you practise with the cadaver? Do you work in group?

[pi]

At Monash (and I'm assuming UoM too), first year and in small groups

[Jenny_2108]

So everyone has to use scalpel to cut the cadaver and examine it? I wonder how its like when we directly do it

[pi]

So everyone has to use scalpel to cut the cadaver and examine it? I wonder how its like when we directly do it

You don't have to if you don't want to and there is no examination (formative or summative) regarding dissections (at least not at Monash). Personally I didn't find the cutting to be bad at all, you get desensitised really quickly.

[paulsterio]

So everyone has to use scalpel to cut the cadaver and examine it? I wonder how its like when we directly do it

It's not that bad and the truth is, if you want to go into medicine, you'll have to get used to "body parts and fluids" pretty damn quickly before you're in the hospitals - unless you intend to have a career in something such as public health.

You don't have to if you don't want to and there is no examination (formative or summative) regarding dissections (at least not at Monash). Personally I didn't find the cutting to be bad at all, you get desensitised really quickly.

Well you kinda do have to be there - but yeah - generally there are always keen ones in a group who want to do a lot of work - so you can sort of just watch if you're not confident. But I would strongly suggest that you take part though because you do learn a lot from dissecting.

[Jenny_2108]

whats the difference between working in hospitals and public health btw?

How often do you do these things in medicine course?