What happens when you donate your body to medical education?

cjb250 — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 09:15:29 +0000

“I feel like I’m in a bit of a daze at the moment as to what just happened,” says Giri Nandakumar. “I have never seen a dead body before. The complexion, the expression of the face, the position they’re in, this was all quite new to me.”

Nandakumar is a first year medical student at ��Ī. He has been at the University less than a week, and has barely had time to unpack his belongings and settle in before entering the dissection room and taking his first steps towards a career in medicine. While students in other disciplines are poring over textbooks or listening keenly to a lecture, he has come face-to-face with a tutor of a very different kind: a donated, dead body.

To read more and to find out about the history of anatomy teaching at ��Ī, please see your feature Body of work: the silent teacher helping students learn anatomy.

For over 450 years, students have been studying anatomy at ��Ī through whole body dissection. But students find that they learn far more than just the architecture of the human body during their classes.

Body of work: the silent teacher helping students learn anatomy

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What happens when you donate your body to medical education?

Body of work: the silent teacher helping students learn anatomy

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