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 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 ...
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 ...
Kaleido Scope

New site gives UAB students an edge in anatomy studies

Next week, Hunter Davies will join the rest of the class of 2027 as a first-year student at the UAB Heersink School of Medicine. Davies, who goes by Caroline, already has a head start in her studies, ...