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You would think that the facial dissection is the most traumatic, and you would probably be right. It's an area of "high emotional impact," they say, which means that you associate with it, or feel like it would be painful. That, our instructors explained, is why my medical school pushes it off until later. Some other schools, which shall remain nameless, BEGIN with the face, on the first day of school. Maybe it's to show the students that medical school is not easy, or that they have to be self-important showoffs to be good at their job, I don't know. But I do know that it's really nice of our course directors to take our mindset into consideration when designing the curriculum. It's further proof that our teachers are not trying to give us undue nightmares, or scare us into studying harder, rather choosing to focus their efforts on teaching us in the most efficient and useful way possible. In any event, I said that you would probably be right. ...

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