Dooley Noted: 6/29/2016
Each time our team teaches Immaculate Dissection, I am asked a common question:
“Why is anatomy not taught this way in school?”
With curricular committees setting standards, the focus on school is to satisfy requirements for professional licensure.
The type of practitioner you’ll become is largely determined in practice – not in school.
Most licensing boards require professionals to take continuing education courses.
Although you may feel your curriculum-based education fell short, you can learn as much as you want to learn in post-graduate work.
No matter how well one thinks they know anatomy, a different angle or perspective may be helpful.
I’ve studied my share of books.
It wasn’t until I walked away from them that I finally forced myself to really think about the material.
All books fell so short that we created a seminar for ourselves, to share with others what we learned outside the books.
We put the anatomy into our bodies, feeling it move and explaining how things worked in synergy – rather than as separate parts.
Please learn as much as you can from the books.
But consider opening your mind to new perspectives that may exist well outside the confines of a book’s pages.
As always, it’s your call.
– Dr. Kathy Dooley
