Education
Jason Mussell
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Barbie Klein
University of California, San Francisco
Teaching embryology is extremely difficult, in part because of the numerous rapid changes that occur at molecular and cellular levels in three dimensions while time progresses. Being able to visualize these changes using computer generated virtual models, as well as, three-dimensional printed models is a standard educational practice. However, this practice fails to take into account the origin of the tissues used to create them and presents educators with an ethical dilemma of what we can/should say. For this reason, we are submitting this symposium: Seeing the Embryo in Education and Society. The symposium spotlights advances in visualizing embryonic and fetal development and the constraints placed on educators as less time is dedicated to the subject, limiting necessary conversations when dealing with the social, ethical, and spiritual issues of development. Our panel will provide educators with a primer of the broader social and philosophic fundamentals surrounding the origin of life and how these beliefs have been used to promote a misogynistic and racist agenda that is undergoing a resurgence. A critical examination will conclude the symposium demonstrating how legislation may be intentionally misleading and the crucial role educators have in preparing themselves and their students to call attention to the inaccuracies.
Speaker: Jennifer Dennis, Ph.D – Kansas Health Science Center-Kansas College of Osteopathic Medicine
Speaker: Rachel N. Feltman – New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine
Speaker: Craig A. Ford – St. Norbert College
