A rise in students studying medicine in Scotland has resulted in a shortage of medical cadavers.
According to a report, Prof Gordon Findlater, who is HM Inspector of Anatomy for Scotland, found that a number of university training courses were cancelled because of the demand for corpses.
A number of inspections were carried out by Prof Findlater, including a medical site at the University of Aberdeen.
The Scottish Deanery said there were 5,390 medical students in the 2023-24 academic year.
This was up from 5,645 the previous year and up from 3,928 in 2015-16.
In 2016, the Scottish government said it would increase the number of medical school places by 190 over five years to tackle the shortage in doctors.
290 bodies were accepted by anatomy departments over the academic year, and 178 were rejected.
Prof Findlater said that all departments were working well and to a high standard, but the demand for bodies is a "potential problem."
"This is already having an impact on the surgical colleges who are now having to cancel training courses due to medical schools having to meet their own needs first before that of the colleges."
"This situation is not helped by the need of the five medical schools in Scotland having to meet the increased need for cadavers required to teach the increasing number of medical students they now have to accept," he said.
Dundee, Edinburgh, St Andrews and Glasgow were among other universities struggling to meet the demand.