Designer dissections: Tailor-made for your career in anatomy and medicine

Exposure to a cadaver dissection highlights the crucial humanistic values required to become a successful physician, including learning the qualities of respect, empathy, and compassion. This encounter has a usefulness for knowledge learned in basic sciences and medicine. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the transition from the cadaver-based laboratory to software-based applications has been expedited. By pioneering a movement called “Designer Dissections,” this concept paper presents a personalized, medical education experience in a specific anatomical region and in an area of specialty-interest. Allopathic and Osteopathic Medical students, physicians,andprofessorswilldevelopthisproject to promote Interprofessional Education. This project provides a novel approach for anatomical teaching and the production and use of additional material for anatomical sciences education and medical education. Further, this paper addresses a gap in knowledge and its possible long-term effects on patient care due to a lack of anatomical knowledge and skills secondary to the absence of cadaver dissection experiences. This design is an early invitation for first-year medical students to get involved in basic and clinical research, develop positive mentor-mentee relationships, and strengthen their knowledge in their specialty of interest, and the approach can be applied to electives in the clinical-training year, as well as professional, continuing medical education.