Brain Dissection for Clinicians: Structure and Function
Under the direction and tutelage of Prof. Frederick R. Carrick
Faculty
Professor: Dr. Frederick Carrick
The opportunity to hold a human brain in one’s hands is a gift that many clinicians never experience. The opportunity to personally dissect a human brain under the tutelage of a master is a dream come true. The opportunity to be guided through a clinical link between structure, function, disease and pathology with a direction for treatment is unique and very seldom embraced. Dissection has persisted as a primary teaching tool for clinicians for a very long time, but our brain dissection program is uniquely designed for clinicians. We lead our doctors on a journey of function related to structure, and it is a dream come true.
Our scholars gain practical skills and appreciate the human brain by first-hand understanding of anatomical variability, learning teamwork and peer interaction. Each area of the brain will be carefully dissected by the scholar under the personal tutelage of Prof Frederick R Carrick. Prof Carrick has examined several thousand brains during his four decades of brain science and clinical application. He credits his clinical acumen to the thorough understanding of brain function that can only be achieved by touching, seeing and assigning a function to every millimeter of nervous tissue. Scholars will not be watching but will be doing the dissections.
Prof Carrick leads advanced programs of brain dissection only once and rarely twice a decade. Clinicians from around the world have marveled at his technique, knowledge, and ability to bring structure to function. The artistry of brain dissection is not cartesian, and Prof Carrick demonstrates sections of the brain that you will not see in an anatomical text. The need to explore brain relationships at a distance from a functional network or hub has necessitated novel approaches to brain dissection that have been developed by Prof Carrick. His pedagogical approach promotes long-term mastery of difficult clinical material that then, in turn can be easily applied to the patient population.