 Students who had the opportunity to watch Vesalius in dissection at times had the opportunity to interact with the animal corpse.At the risk of letting their eagerness to participate become a distraction to their professors, medical students preferred this interactive teaching style at the time.In the universities the lectern would sit elevated before the audience and instruct someone else in the dissection of the body, but in his early years Mondino de Luzzi performed the dissection himself making him one of the first and few to use a hands on approach to teaching human anatomy.