• Daxtron2@startrek.website
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    6 months ago

    Dissection is an essential part of teaching about anatomy. It’s not necessary in highschool, where 95% of the students will never need it, but in higher Ed it’s absolutely required and digital dissection is not a replacement (but still a valuable supplemental teaching tool)

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      6 months ago

      I would argue it’s a great way to get a feeler for if you can hack it as a doctor or not. If you can’t handle dissecting a preserved small animal, you’ll never make it through med school. Honestly more of high school should involve mini job simulation beyond the standard “office peon” that most of highschool simulates.

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      6 months ago

      Sure, there’s a point to it in higher education, but you’d be working with an animal specific to the need.

      I was only talking about the high school level, where frogs are the default “starter”. Should probably have specified, but figured it was implied enough by context

      My school actually didn’t use frogs, they went with fetal pigs, and cats for the anatomy class. That’s just as a tangent unrelated to the original post and discussion.