The Unintentional Effects on Body Donation Programs of a Competency-Based Curriculum in Postgraduate Medical Education

As medical programs place increasing importance on competency-based training and surgical simulations for residents, anatomy laboratories, and body donation programs find themselves in a position of adapting to changing demands. To better assess the demand for “life-like” cadaveric specimens and evaluate the possible impacts that competency-based medical education could have upon the body donation program of McGill University, Canada, the authors tracked, over the course of the last 10 years, the number of soft-embalmed specimens, along with the number of teaching sessions and the residents enrolled in competency-based programs that are using cadaveric material. The results reveal that the number of soft-embalmed specimens used within residency training increased from 5 in 2009 to 35 in 2019, representing an increase from 6% of bodies to 36.5% of the total number of body donors embalmed in this institution. Correspondingly, the number of annual teaching sessions for residents increased from 19 in 2012 to 116 in 2019. These increases in teaching are correlated with increasing number of residents enrolled in competency-based programs over the last 3 years (Pearson r ranging from 0.9705 to 0.9903, and R² ranging from 0.9418 to 0.9808). Those results suggest that the new skill-centered curricula which require residents to perform specific tasks within realistic settings, exhibit a growing demand for “life-like” cadaveric specimens. Institutions’ body donation programs must, therefore, adapt to those greater need for cadaveric specimens, which presents many challenges, ranging from the logistical to the ethical.     

A Bioethos for Bodies: Respecting a Priceless Resource

The value that willed body donors provide to medical education is priceless. Their precious gift helps to teach anatomy, spatial relationships between morphological structures, anatomical variation, and professionalism to medical students in a way that plastic models, podcasts, and lectures cannot. They are also an important resource for medical research and a wide variety of postgraduate training opportunities. While many body donation programs throughout the world are nonprofit organizations, there are body donation companies in the United States that sell donors for-profit. These “body brokers” have accumulated large profits from this business. It is incongruous that others would profit from such a priceless, freely donated gift. To prevent this incongruity, it is proposed that the international anatomical community develop a normative culture (a bioethos) for body donation programs. This would involve the conscious and systematic development of ethical principles for the day-to-day policies and practices of institutions that collect and use human bodies. With the development of this bioethos, a cultural shift in how donors are treated would occur and, over time, this would become the normal practice. These principles would become fundamental and foundational for the procurement and use of priceless human tissues.     

心理学研究方法体系的探讨——对运动心理学研究方法的启示

心理学的发展与应用 ,都与科学的研究方法密切相关。心理学研究主要是在辩证唯物主义理论指导下 ,吸取其他学科的研究方法并且形成自己独特的研究方法体系以促进心理科学的发展。而运动心理学是心理学的一个分支学科 ,它是随心理科学和体育科学的发展而不断完善 ,为适应体育运动的需要而产生的一门应用学科。其研究方法主要来源于它的母科学———心理学方法的一般研究方法。心理学研究方法的发展也极大丰富了运动心理学研究的手段 ,使运动心理学的研究和应用得到了更大的发展。     

政府与市场:奥运会组织模式的双翼——兼论2008年北京奥运会组织模式

举办一届最出色的奥运会已经成为北京乃至全国关注和努力奋斗的目标。出色的奥运会的筹备和组织工作包括组织模式的创新。回顾奥运会一百多年的历史，发现政府和市场的关系问题在奥运会组织模式中起着重要作用。运用比较的研究方法，对两者关系进行研究，认为政府和市场是成功组织奥运会的双翼，二者不可偏废。如果奥运会由政府举办，政府失灵会导致奥运会亏损；单独靠市场运作，市场失灵会导致奥运会的组织混乱。总结正反两方面的经验教训，政府和市场的积极作用相结合，将不仅有利于奥运会的成功举办，而且对组织体制和模式的创新留下宝贵的遗产。     

云南区域经济差异及协调发展研究的背景与意义

云南经济发展战略和区域政策的制定 ,一方面要站在全国的高度 ,充分认识云南经济发展的水平和在全国的位置 ;另一方面更要立足于云南的实际 ,正视云南区域经济发展不平衡的现实。因此 ,通过云南区域经济差异及协调发展研究 ,认识云南区域经济差异的现状、原因和影响 ,进行区域经济差异调控 ,对促进云南区域经济持续、稳定、协调地发展具有重要意义。     

运动训练学学科建设与发展若干问题的探讨

探讨了运动训练学在竞技体育中指向直接获得竞技状态；运动训练学的研究对象、内容包括相关的实践内容和学科自身研究；运动训练学基本概念和理论的发展还不成熟；运动训练学学科地位具有确定性，但属性还存在分歧；学科的研究方法还不成熟，方法运用应注意适用性问题；学科应注重科学学的研究，在科研机制、设置、人才建设等方面也亟待加强。     

中国传统体育的审美价值取向与反思

从人对生命追求的角度探讨中国传统体育的审美价值。对人的社会、自然、精神生命的不同追求，构成了儒家、道家、佛教体育审美价值的不同取向。现代体育应以综合开发人的生命意识为发展方向。