I wanted to clarify one thing. The Anatomy class I was taking was a college level class that I chose to take, thinking I was going to go into the medical field. It was not a mandatory class for anyone.

But to answer your question, bisi.cat, I think perhaps the frog dissection is about as heavy as it gets for the normal Biology student in the US, of course, I'm only basing that on my small knowledge base of SC, specifically the community I grew up in and the one I live in now. And truly, as bad as it sounds, I don't think one can really understand all the different systems of the body without "seeing" the real thing. That was the importance.