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The cadaver dissection course remains a time‐honored tradition in medical education, partly because of its importance in cultivating professional attitudes in students. This study aims to investigate students’ attitudes—specifically characterized as “detached concern”—in a cadaver dissection course. An interpretative phenomenological analysis was performed with semi‐structured, focus group interviews among 12 third‐year medical students from a Taiwanese medical school to reveal their perceptions and learning experiences regarding human cadaver dissection. Based on these interviews, four relevant categories of perspectives were delineated: (1) initial emotional impact, (2) human referents, (3) coping strategies, and (4) ways of perceiving cadavers. Students were divided into two groups based on these categories. Students in Group 1 developed mechanisms described as “detachment” to cope with their initial emotional reactions to cadaveric dissection, which was noted to have disruptive effects on their learning. They considered human referents to be learning obstacles and avoided contact with or thinking about the human referents while performing dissections. Some of them faced a confl

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Author

Wei‐Ting Tseng; Ya‐Ping Lin

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 1935-9772)

Published

2015

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)