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By grant mercer gross anatomy lab during which cadavers are dissected and studied in detail is a rite of passage for most first year medical students for many it is the first time seeing a dead body much less actually touching one. At vanderbilt anatomy rather than being a single course is sprinkled throughout a medical students first year of training the first foray into the anatomy lab typically uses a skin examination and observing and recognizing various skin conditions to help students adjust and adapt to their new learning environment. Instead of doing all of anatomy in the first 8 weeks of medical school we have anatomy labs relevant to what we are learning throughout our first two years for example if we are in the gi unit and learning about nausea and vomiting that week we will have an anatomy lab session that week to learn about foregut structures like the stomach . For the do dpm and msa programs the anatomy course runs almost the entire first year it starts in august and ends in the beginning of may there are about 2 weeks of anatomy lectures before lab begins so students have a good knowledge base to go into the lab with. It is the day before the first anatomy lab for the first year medical students and read more dissecting anatomy lab the assembly of a medical student in the golden glow of a fall day one hundred four first year medical students parade out read more dissecting anatomy lab introduction