Covid-19: Emerging Considerations for Body Sourcing and Handling. A Perspective View from Nigeria

The current Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic has spread to about 220 countries of the world and has resulted in a significant number of deaths globally. Infections are still on the rise, and the impact on the global death rate could be devastating. There are fears over the likely impact of a large number of deaths on body sourcing and handling of cadavers for teaching and research. Historically, epidemics come with several challenges and have often led to some level of negligence of ethical practices and health and safety regulations associated with body sourcing and handling. The authors highlighted some emerging problems in this article, focusing on Africa and Nigeria in particular. These problems include a higher risk of coronavirus exposure for body handlers, shortage of cadavers for teaching and learning, a lack of standard regulations leading to unethical body sourcing and handling, and a lack of monitoring and collaboration needed for a well-coordinated Covid-19 pandemic response strategy. If these issues are ignored, the previous gains made in anatomical ethical practices may be destroyed. Some useful recommendations for policymaking geared toward prevention or curtailing these emerging issues have been instilled in this article.     

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.     

理性·求实·辩证--再评书次号的统一

从书次号的定义和功能出发 ,阐述研究书次号的理性认识、实事求是态度和辩证法思想。     

对提高运动训练科学化水平的思考

从运动训练理论的建立、运动训练的控制、心理训练和心理调控、“大负荷”运动训练、运动训练方法的应用、运动技术的创新等几个方面阐述了它们对提高运动训练科学化水平的作用，认识到只有不断的创新，才能使运动训练更加合理化、科学化，才能使运动员创造出更好的运动成绩。     

重视信息反馈办好《实用乡村医生杂志》

依据系统科学基础理论探讨科技期刊信息传播中读者信息反馈的重要意义及其作用。简介在编辑工作实践中树立读者意识，注重读者信息反馈，使刊物的传播效果达到优化的做法与体会。     

并校后图书馆文献采访工作研探

章对并校后图书馆图书采访工作的现状作了具体的分析，并对新形势下图书采访工作如何应对提出切实可行的举措。     

电子图书崭露头角

我国的电子图书已问世。在美国、德国 ,电子图书都正在发展。目前 ,电子图书发育尚不成熟 ,主要问题在于技术、成本、版权和标准格式方面。电子图书将很快地发展起来 ,并将改变人们的生活。参考文献 13     

运动拍摄与解析技术的快速反馈研究进展

快速反馈是运动拍摄与解析技术的核心，从萌芽发展到电影拍摄、录像拍摄以至红外拍摄技术，均是围绕着快速反馈而不断创新、发展的。既有清晰图像又不须人工判读图像特征点的自动跟踪技术是运动拍摄与解析技术进一步的研究方向。     

浅谈素质教育

素质教育作为学校的一项重要的长期任务要求我们具有一支素质较高，能够激发学生学习动机的教师队伍。笔者就如何激发学生学习动机做出如下思考：①要加强对学生进行学习目的的教育；②及时反馈与恰当评价；③科学使用奖赏和处罚。