The Office of Education coordinates the university’s Body Donor Program, which allows individuals to provide an important and very personal gift to the School of Medicine. The anatomy instruction that our department leads relies on the selfless donations of individuals to advance the medical education of our students.
Body donation serves a vital role and allows medical students, allied health professionals and physicians in training to gain the detailed knowledge of human anatomy that is essential in order to deliver the best quality care to their patients. All donor tissue is used to teach anatomy in the classroom and surgical settings. Gifts made to the program also allow clinician-scientists, whose ultimate goal is to assist in understanding mechanisms affecting human health and disease, to conduct vital research.
Medical students also organize a yearly Donor Remembrance to show appreciation to the body donors and their loved ones, who have helped advance medical education and biomedical research with their generous donations.