Similar scenes played out across the country this spring as medical, dental and physical therapy students assembled to offer tributes to whole-body donors and their families.
At the ceremonies, students perform music, light candles, read letters and share art.
Sometimes a tree designation or an offering of flowers to a donor’s family is included.
Even with the introduction of elaborate 3-D visualization software, dissection remains a cornerstone of a medical education for most first-year students, as it has for centuries.
Students spend months methodically studying the structures of the body, including organs, tendons, veins and tissue.
Persons:
Bree Zhang, Diana Cervantes, Joy Balta, “ You’re, you’ve, ”, Balta
Organizations:
Columbia, The New York Times, American Association for, Anatomy Learning, Point Loma Nazarene University
Locations:
Columbia, United States, Point, San Diego