The AM/DM podcast: In med school, students can do no harm to first patient
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One of the first classes medical students take is gross anatomy. They first learn about the human body during a lecture and then it’s onto the lab, where their first patient — a donor body — awaits them.
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center has required its first-year med students to do an anatomy lab since 1911. To do so, the school relies on living donors who give their bodies to science.
Today, reporter John Klyce is here to talk to us about how UT Health Science Center’s cadaver lab works, why it’s important and even how they find their bodies.
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AM/DMMary Cashiola
Mary Cashiola has been a Memphis journalist for nearly two decades, beginning her career covering city government and local neighborhoods at the Memphis Flyer before being hired by Memphis Mayor A C Wharton’s administration.
Before joining The Daily Memphian, she was the managing editor of the Memphis Business Journal, which was named one of the top 10 Best Designed Newspapers in the world by the Society of News Design while she was there.
She also has a background in advertising, with a focus on higher education and the hospitality industry.
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