Aims: To evaluate the beliefs, feelings and knowledge of undergraduate medical students towards dissection in this part of the world as an exercise in joining other researchers to solve the attendant challenges.

Methods: An anonymous self-administered 17-item structured questionnaire was generated from available indexed journals admitted to preclinical medical students using a 5-point Likert scale options. Collated data were entered into Statistical Package for Social Scientists (SPSS version 21) software for analysis with utilization of simple means, frequency and Kendall's Coefficient of Concordance. Statistical significance was taken as p < 0.05. Results: Out of 135 students qualified to partake in this study, only 114 returned the completed questionnaire representing a response rate of 84.4%. Kendall's Coefficient of Concordance revealed no significant values by comparing items 1, 2, 3, 4, and 15; items 5, 6 and 7 but significant in items 8 and 13; items 9 and 10; and items 11 and 14.

Conclusion: This study affirmed emotional distress as constant issue towards human cadaveric dissection and kind-heartedness to cadavers as psycho-social appraisal to the livings. Dissection was preferred to prosection in acquisition of skill and knowledge. Human dissection was applauded against plastic models and computer gadgets. Issues on integration of underground music were positive towards treatment of emotional stress in dissection. Majority of students endorsed future specialization in anatomy.

Keywords: Cadaver, Career, Emotion, Underground music