IFAA recommendations for the ethical use of anatomical images

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Early Learning in Medicine, Otago Medical School, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
² Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
³ Department of Cell Biology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA.
⁴ School of Anatomical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
⁵ Office of the President, University of California, Oakland, California, USA.
⁶ Institute of Anatomy, Medical School Brandenburg, Neuruppin, Germany.

Editorial

Jon Cornwall et al. Anat Sci Educ. 2024 Jan-Feb.

. 2024 Jan-Feb;17(1):7-10.

doi: 10.1002/ase.2349. Epub 2023 Nov 2.

¹ Centre for Early Learning in Medicine, Otago Medical School, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
² Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
³ Department of Cell Biology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA.
⁴ School of Anatomical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
⁵ Office of the President, University of California, Oakland, California, USA.
⁶ Institute of Anatomy, Medical School Brandenburg, Neuruppin, Germany.

No abstract available

Keywords: anatomy; anatomy education; body donation; digital technology; ethics; guidelines; images; recommendations.

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