During a May 8 memorial service at the NYIT Old Westbury campus, first-year medical students from NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine and physician assistant students from NYIT School of Health Professions place flowers near the base of a tree planted in memory of anatomical donors.
The education of physicians and physician assistants is dependent on whole body donation, which provides the generous gift of knowledge, enabling students to learn the structure and relationships of the human body, more so than any review of a textbook or computer simulation.
The memorial service paid tribute to 52 men and women who donated their bodies to science.
