Guidelines for cadaver dissection in education and research of clinical medicine (The Japan Surgical Society and The Japanese Association of Anatomists)

Toshiaki Shichinohe; Takashi Kondo; Hiroshi Date; Masako Hiramatsu; Satoshi Hirano; Chizuka Ide; Toshihiko Iwanaga; Yoshimitsu Izawa; Akio Kikuta; Eiji Kobayashi; Yoshiro Matsui; Yutaka Nohara; Takanori Shibata; Yasuhiro Shirakawa; Takane Suzuki; Haruo Takahashi; Hiroshi Taneichi; Toshiyuki Tsurumoto; Yasuo Uchiyama; Masahiko Watanabe; Hiroyuki Yaginuma; Kumiko Yamaguchi; Kazunari Yoshida

doi:10.1007/s00595-022-02525-4

Guidelines for cadaver dissection in education and research of clinical medicine (The Japan Surgical Society and The Japanese Association of Anatomists)

Surg Today. 2022 Jul;52(7):989-994. doi: 10.1007/s00595-022-02525-4. Epub 2022 May 24.

Authors

Toshiaki Shichinohe^#¹, Takashi Kondo^#², Hiroshi Date^#², Masako Hiramatsu^#², Satoshi Hirano^#², Chizuka Ide^#^{2

3}, Toshihiko Iwanaga^#^{2

3}, Yoshimitsu Izawa^#², Akio Kikuta^#^{2

3}, Eiji Kobayashi^#², Yoshiro Matsui^#², Yutaka Nohara^#², Takanori Shibata^#², Yasuhiro Shirakawa^#², Takane Suzuki^#^{2

3}, Haruo Takahashi^#², Hiroshi Taneichi^#², Toshiyuki Tsurumoto^#^{2

3}, Yasuo Uchiyama^#^{2

3}, Masahiko Watanabe^#^{2

3}, Hiroyuki Yaginuma^#^{2

3}, Kumiko Yamaguchi^#^{2

3}, Kazunari Yoshida^#²

Affiliations

¹ The Japan Surgical Society, Guidelines Review Committee and CST Promotion Committee, World Trade Center Building South Tower 11F, 2-4-1, Hamamatsu-cho, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 105-5111, Japan. shichino@med.hokudai.ac.jp.
² The Japan Surgical Society, Guidelines Review Committee and CST Promotion Committee, World Trade Center Building South Tower 11F, 2-4-1, Hamamatsu-cho, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 105-5111, Japan.
³ The Japanese Association of Anatomists, c/o Oral Health Association, Komagome TS Bldg., 1-43-9, Komagome, Toshima-ku, Tokyo, 170-0003, Japan.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

This article translates the guidelines for cadaver surgical training (CST) published in 2012 by Japan Surgical Society (JSS) and Japanese Association of Anatomists from Japanese to English. These guidelines are based on Japanese laws and enable the usage of donated cadavers for CST and clinical research. The following are the conditions to implement the activities outlined in the guidelines. The aim is to improve medicine and to contribute to social welfare. Activities should only be carried out at medical or dental universities under the centralized control by the department of anatomy under the regulation of Japanese law. Upon the usage of cadavers, registered donors must provide a written informed-consent for their body to be used for CST and other activities of clinical medicine. Commercial use of cadavers and profit-based CST is strongly prohibited. Moreover, all the cadaver-related activities except for the commercial-based ones require the approval of the University's Institutional Review Board (IRB) before implementation. The expert committee organized at each university for the implementation of CST should summarize the implementation of the program and report the details of the training program, operating costs, and conflicts of interest to the CST Promotion Committee of JSS.

Keywords: Cadaver surgical training; Ethical code; Guideline; Human body donation; Postgraduate education.

MeSH terms

Anatomists*
Cadaver
Clinical Medicine*
Dissection
Humans
Japan