San Diego Union-Tribune

Medical students must learn to have compassion for patients. This begins with body donors.

Eyler, Ph.D., is director of Center for Empathy and Compassion Training in Medical Education, Sanford Institute for Empathy and Compassion at UC San Diego and lives in Linda Vista. Noel, Ph.D., is ...
Seven Days

Med School Students Say Dissecting Donated Bodies Provides Lessons Beyond Anatomy

First-year medical students Molly Hurd, Aina Rattu and Anika Advant working in the UVM anatomy lab Credit: Courtesy of Gary Mawe Tom Lever was a thoroughgoingly practical man, according to his wife of ...
The New York Times

Honoring the Body Donors Who Are a Medical Student’s ‘First Patient’

Gratitude ceremonies give students and faculty members a chance to recognize the sacrifice of those who gave their bodies for medical research and education, and the loved ones they left behind. By ...
The Baltimore Sun

For Baltimore medical students, dissection of human body triggers deep emotion

Daniela Krahe likely will never know the tall gentleman’s name. He was dead when they met, so she didn’t get the chance to ask. She’ll never know where the man grew up or whether he had siblings. She ...
NPR

Medical students aren't showing up to class. What does that mean for future docs?

The first half of medical education (traditionally the first one to two years, which are also sometimes called the preclerkship years) prepares students to succeed during the second half of medical ...