Absence Procedures
Anatomy Dissections are required, in-person sessions. Please consult Canvas schedule for specific assignments.
Not all students dissect each session.
Reasons for missing or switching must fall under the Approved Reasons for Deferral (please refer to 'Professional Expectations for Scientific Trunk' on Canvas)
If you will miss an assigned Anatomy Lab, complete the following:
Remember that you are responsible for all content in pre-work and completion of the Readiness Assessments.
1.) DO NOT skip this step - approval is mandatory. Contact scitrunkstaff@umich.edu and cc (m1anatomy@umich.edu) to gain approval for the switch or to get approval for the deferral.
2.) Find replacement coverage for you for the dissection. It is your professional responsibility to your team to find coverage. This is important as it will not leave your partner alone during the session.
Your replacement should be from another dissecting team (e.g. if you are Team 1A, coverage should come from either Team 2, or Team 1B - ideally, from the same dissecting table but not necessarily so).
To avoid a deferral, you must find an individual who will switch sessions with you. A switch has to be within the same Block time frame. If you arrange a switch of sessions with a replacement, the absence would not require a deferral. Example: you are scheduled to dissect during Session 1 but need to miss - you have permission from scitrunkstaff@umich.edu to switch and you find an individual in Team 2 who can dissect during Session 1 and you will cover their dissection in Session 2.
Even if you can't find someone willing to switch sessions, you should still find coverage. This would count as a deferral.