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By Carlos A. Suárez-Quian
$59.95
Berkeley, CA, Sinauer Associates
http://www.onlinedissector.com/

Russell J. Jauta, MD Author Affiliation: Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (rnauta@mah.harvard.edu).

From their first day of medical school, students are expected to know the anatomical relations of innervation and blood supply of organs and other body structures. During residency training and in practice, clinicians in virtually all specialties, especially surgical disciplines, perform invasive procedures or at least make diagnoses grounded in knowledge of gross anatomy.

Cadaveric prosections as seen in the Online Guided Gross Anatomy Dissector. Left, Prosected heart demonstrating the prominent coronary vasculature along with branches of the aortic arch. Right, Dissection and isolation of contents within the hepatoduodenal ligament. The hepatic artery, portal vein, and common bile duct are further identified on subsequent photographs. Images courtesy of Carlos A. Suárez-Quian, PhD.

For the student, even one armed with written anatomical guides, cadaveric dissections in gross anatomy courses have limitations. Even with the aid of dedicated prosectors, key structures are often overlooked or destroyed as a consequence of the …

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Online Guided Gross Anatomy Dissector [Book and Media Reviews]

Grey's Anatomy: The Songs Beneath the Show Will Feature Eric Dane, Sandra Oh, Sara Ramirez, Chandra Wilson and More

By Andrew Gans
14 Feb 2012

On March 18 cast members from the ABC hit "Grey's Anatomy" will offer Grey's Anatomy: The Songs Beneath the Show at Royce Hall on the UCLA campus.

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The 8 PM live musical celebration will benefit The Actors Fund.

Scheduled to appear are Jessica Capshaw, Justin Chambers, Eric Dane, Sarah Drew, Chyler Leigh, Kevin McKidd, Sandra Oh, Jim Pickens, Jr., Sara Ramirez, Kim Raver and Chandra Wilson.

The actors, according to press notes, will "perform selected songs from last season's 'Musical Event,' as well as additional music from the 'Grey's Anatomy' songbook. This evening of song and story will examine the way music has always been an integral part of the storytelling on 'Grey's,' and will provide fans with a rare behind the scenes glimpse at how the show is put together."

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Posted: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 12:00 am | Updated: 7:25 pm, Tue Feb 14, 2012.

Instead of sticking strictly to textbooks and lectures, Sacramento State's health science students have tangible learning experiences working with real bodies in the Human Anatomy Learning Laboratory.

The laboratory, located in Humboldt Hall, has the capacity and is usually occupied by four donated bodies at a time. Three courses at Sac State incorporate use of the lab: Neuroanatomy, Advanced Anatomy and Human Anatomy for Physical Therapists - a course required for completion of the physical therapy doctorate program, which was established last year.

Biology professor Winston Lancaster is the primary anatomist in charge of the human anatomy facility. He assumed responsibility for the lab after the reassignment of professor Rose Leigh Vines, who began it around 1984. He said the lab provides a rare educational experience to Sac State's undergrads.

"My impression is that not many other schools in the California State University system have access to a lab like this," Lancaster said. "When I tell people what I do here, people generally react with surprise. Most people think, ‘It's just a CSU,' but we have access to resources that are usually reserved for medical schools ."

The opportunity is made possible through the UC Davis' Body Donation Program, which was formed in 1968 to assist medical education institutions in the region. The program distributes donated bodies to the university based on its status as a certified repository, which is required to ensure proper treatment of the bodies and can be revoked at any time.

UC Davis' Body Donation Program operates on unsolicited donations from volunteers in Northern California, according to its website. The program's website notes it has received 3,000 donated bodies thus far, and there are 4,000 living people registered as donors.

"All of the bodies are provided based on voluntary donations through UC Davis; no unidentified bodies are used in our labs," Lancaster said. "Also, all of the bodies go through a screening process that tests for specific diseases, and any bodies that test positive are not used."

UC Davis' program maintains privacy of all donors, which means no names or photos can be released. Because of this, students must place personal belongings, especially cellphones with cameras, into supplied lockers in Humboldt Hall.

"It's hard for some - cellphones are like a lifeline to most students," Lancaster said. "However, this is not usually a problem with the students taking these courses, as many of them are very serious about their studies. Usually, they are really excited about it, and respectful once in the lab."

Lancaster said students do not perform dissections, as neither the time, space nor funding is available for it. He said, however, occasionally he will bring in the hardest-working students to perform the pre-dissections that are presented in the lab.

Most of the time, students are given lab objectives which could involve identifying certain bones or muscles in isolated parts of the body. Students enrolled in one of the classes with access to the lab can come to supervised open lab periods to finish objectives, or further their studies.

"Working with these bodies allows students to better understand the individual variations of anatomy," Lancaster said. "We're just as different under the skin as we are outside of it, which is something that students are always surprised by. It takes looking at more than one body to figure that out."

Jeff Changaris, a graduate student who works with Lancaster, said he was introduced to working with donated bodies in 2006, and has preformed close to 500 dissections since then.

"I can honestly say the experience has changed my life," Changaris said. "We all have this image of what we think the inside of the body would look like, but the body is definitely more than the sum of its parts. Everything within the body is connected, even if it's just barely."

Changaris now manages the donated bodies program at American River College, which has a smaller scale anatomy lab than Sac State's. He gives dissection demonstrations at the college primarily to the school's nursing students.

"When students are given their first exposure, you just don't know how any individual is going to handle that information until it happens," Changaris said. "When I do demonstrations, I let people stand in the back and inch slowly forward."

Rebekah Dobish, senior kinesiology major, said she was both nervous and excited upon entering the lab for the first time, but has learned a great deal from the exposure and has since returned to help Lancaster with dissections.

"You hear the stories about the smell of formaldehyde and it being disgusting, but professor Lancaster makes it very comfortable and professional environment so that apprehension goes away quickly," Dobish said. "Overall, it's just a great experience for biology and kinesiology majors alike."

Lancaster said with an estimated 5,000 named parts of the human body, studying anatomy can be difficult. On top of that, it requires first-hand experience - like what students get in the anatomy lab - to achieve a comprehensive understanding and appreciation of the human body.

"There are many subtle things you can't get from a textbook, but you deal with daily as a practicing professional," Lancaster said. "It takes actual seeing, touching and moving things aside to truly understand the fabric of anatomy."

Brett Johnson can be reached at news@statehornet.com.

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WASHINGTON ? A Georgetown University School of Medicine professor's online anatomy dissector designed to assist medical students in learning gross anatomy is described as a "superb learning tool" in a review published in the February 15 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

The Online Guided Gross Anatomy Dissector (published by Sinauer Associates, Inc.) was developed by Carlos Su?rez-Quian, Ph.D., professor in the department of biochemistry and molecular and cellular biology at Georgetown. He created the dissector to help students master the fundamentals of human dissection and gross anatomy, the course that Su?rez-Quian teaches at the medical school.

Writing in the "Books and Media Reviews" section of JAMA, Russell J. Nauta, M.D., of Harvard Medical School, underscores the importance of gross anatomy knowledge throughout one's medical career. "?Clinicians in virtually all specialties, especially surgical disciplines, perform invasive procedures or at least make diagnoses grounded in knowledge of gross anatomy," he says. Nauta describes the dissector as "an easily accessible, well-indexed, user-friendly guide to gross anatomy applicable to a wide range of potential uses, from first-year medical student to specialty clinician."

The dissector can be accessed on any electronic device with web functions, including student favorites such as the iPad and iPhone. It includes more than six hours of short cadaver dissection videos and interactive step-by-step instructions of actual cadaveric dissection images. With each set of dissection instructions, users click through the sequence of images that show exactly what they should reveal in their own dissection, gradually progressing until every region of the body is thoroughly dissected. Users can then test themselves and reinforce their knowledge with more than 300 interactive flash cards .

"The beauty of the Online Guided Gross Anatomy Dissector is in its indexing and presentation of Information," says Nauta in his review. "The online dissector makes it less likely that the medical student will damage key anatomical features during cadaveric dissection, but if key structures are affected, the online tool provides 'rescue' in the form of a compelling visual alternative," he explains.

As a guided tutorial that enables the user to progress from novice to mastery of human anatomy, it is also suitable for undergraduates and students preparing to enter medical school who do not have access to a laboratory.

"Little had changed since I was a graduate student in the seventies, lugging around a textbook, atlas, and a 200-page dissection manual," Su?rez-Quian recalls. After seeing his own students struggle with the amount of material and its traditional presentation, he set out to harness the power of digital technology and the internet to make learning more student-friendly, without compromising knowledge or proficiency.

"There is no getting around the fact that gross anatomy requires mastering a large new vocabulary, thousands of images, interdependencies and processes, but it doesn't need to be a bewildering or inflexible experience," says Su?rez-Quian.

Georgetown University provides on campus and remote access enabling students to review before, during, and after their lab dissections. "The dissector won't replace what students learn in the laboratory, but serves as a lab tutorial, allowing students to reinforce their dissection experience through self-directed learning," Su?rez-Quian explains.

Nauta concludes his review declaring, "? there is no reason to use only a printed guide when a convenient and well-presented online source such as this is available."

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About Georgetown University Medical Center

Georgetown University Medical Center is an internationally recognized academic medical center with a three-part mission of research, teaching and patient care (through MedStar Health). GUMC's mission is carried out with a strong emphasis on public service and a dedication to the Catholic, Jesuit principle of cura personalis -- or "care of the whole person." The Medical Center includes the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing & Health Studies, both nationally ranked; Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, designated as a comprehensive cancer center by the National Cancer Institute; and the Biomedical Graduate Research Organization (BGRO), which accounts for the majority of externally funded research at GUMC including a Clinical Translation and Science Award from the National Institutes of Health. In fiscal year 2010-11, GUMC accounted for 85 percent of the university's sponsored research funding.

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The Arabs call it Obwah Lasica, while the rest of the world terms it as a sticky bomb. This is a name that is doing the rounds ever since an attack took place in Delhi [ Images ] on Monday, in which an Israeli Diplomat and three others were injured.

The sticky bomb is probably one of the most convenient bombs that could be used and it has been found that it has often been used used in nIran and Iraq, although its origins can be traced back to World War II.

The bomb is usually the size of a person's fist and is either attached to a magnet or an adhesive. It is usually used by terrorists who carry out a quick operation and want to slip out without being noticed. The size of this bomb makes it very easy to use, so much so, that the person carrying it in his hand often goes unnoticed.

The bomb is usually stuck on to a car, and because of its small size, goes unnoticed. There have been many instances when the sticky bomb has been attached with the help of an adhesive to bumper of a car or on the number plate.

The other method used is to attach the bomb to a magnet, and throw it on to a moving vehicle, while following it. There is no danger whatsoever for the person operating a sticky bomb, since it explodes only with the help of a detonator, and can be done so at a safe distance of up to 100 metres.

Also, the area of the impact is also very less. When attached to the vehicle, the impact is magnified because of the fuel tank of the vehicle, making it more lethal to the person(s) sitting in it.

In the recent past, it has been extensively used by those fighting the American forces in Iraq. There are many instances to show that groups such as Hamas [ Images ] have used this device. Its is used largely to cause fear panic and also an impact.

Most of such bombs have been found to be homemade. A mixture of C4 is combined with an accelerant and then packed with shrapnel. The bomb is always triggered by a detonator; ion most cases, a cell phone.

This is relatively a new concept for India-based groups. If Monday's attack has even a trace of Indian origin in it, then it could well be the beginning of the sticky bomb on Indian soil. The sheer magnitude of the panic would be sufficient to destabilise normal life.

Indian Intelligence agencies say that there is a good chance of some of the Indian modules adapting themselves to use this kind of a bomb, and this only increases the need to be more watchful.

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CBS is offering its fans a peek behind the scenes at CSI.

Beginning today, the network will unveil Anatomy of a TV Hit: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, a nine episode web series centered on the creation of the billion dollar franchise now in its 12th season.

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The episodes feature interviews with every major executive involved in the long-running series, from CBS’ Leslie Moonves and Nina Tassler to executive producers Jerry Bruckheimer and Carol Mendelsohn to former stars William Petersen and Marg Helgenberger.

The first episode, which clocks in at 10 minutes, provides first-person accounts of the series’ initial pitch to the network. Among the highlights is the show’s creator Anthony Zuiker recalling the pep talk producer Jonathan Littman gave him as he headed into the CBS offices to sell the forensic investigators concept.

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“I remember being upset and depressed,” says Zuiker. “NBC and Fox didn’t want to see me and ABC already passed. Jonathan said if you don’t sell it here, it’s dead.”

Tassler and Moonves, too, use the platform to reflect on the early excitement surrounding the concept from a little-known writer. “You will not be disappointed,” was the convincing message Tassler remembers hearing from Littman. Twelve seasons later, she acknowledges the message proved exceedingly accurate. 

Later in episode one, Petersen recalls how his character was initially conceived with a very Jewish last name, an idea he was up for until Moonves stepped in. “Billy is a brilliant actor,” the CBS chief tells the cameras, “but you don’t think Jewish when you first see him.” 

The remaining episodes, which will roll out on Tuesdays and Thursdays on CBS.com between now and March 8, will focus on such topics as shooting the pilot, casting, special effects and production.

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