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Are We Seeing Only the Tip of the Iceberg? Emphasizing the Implicit Outcomes of Dissection in Anatomy Education

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    V. Dinesh Kumar & S. S. S. N. Rajasekhar

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Baratz G, Wilson-Delfosse AL, Singelyn BM, Allan KC, Rieth GE, Ratnaparkhi R, et al. Evaluating the Anatomage Table Compared to Cadaveric Dissection as a Learning Modality for Gross Anatomy. Med Sci Educ 2019; 29 (1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40670-019-00719-z

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Kumar, V.D., Rajasekhar, S.S.S.N. Are We Seeing Only the Tip of the Iceberg? Emphasizing the Implicit Outcomes of Dissection in Anatomy Education. Med.Sci.Educ. 29, 889–890 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40670-019-00734-0

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