Anatomy Memorial Ceremony
Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine
O'Dowd Hall, Room 428
586 Pioneer Drive
Rochester, MI 48309
(248) 370-3634
586 Pioneer Drive
Rochester, MI 48309
(248) 370-3634
Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine
Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine and Oakland University School of Health Sciences Physical Therapy Program collaborate on an Anatomy Memorial held annually in honor of individuals who donated their bodies to medicine.
The memorial ceremony features speakers from both programs. Students pay tribute to donors through art and performance.
Highlights from the 2024 OUWB Anatomy Memorial can be found in the video below.
Transcript
[Music]
the most special moments have actually
not been
anatomical they are more moments of
tenderness compassion and peace it is
the student who subconsciously placed
their hand over their donor's hand as a
sign of comfort while their other team
members were performing a procedure with
the donor it is the one student in the
winter semester who has returned the
anatomy lab facility for some other
purpose and breaks out into a smile when
they past their donor or places their
hand lovingly on their donor for a split
second as they walk by as a student it's
hard to imagine how your body donors
help you shape your lives after medical
school but as some have mentioned
already they do I'm going to take a
little bit of an unconventional approach
today to show you an interpretation of
human movement the way that I see it
think about the pictures that each body
is creating on their own and then I want
you to think about the picture that the
whole group group is creating it's
always been my dream to bring my two
passions together my love for movement
and science so I thank the families of
the donors and the donors themselves for
giving their life to
science the first time I held the human
heart excitement
honor and fear left circumplex artery
right coronary artery these are the two
arteries that almost took my D dad for
me this heart was the fuel I needed it
powered my heart my heart for medicine
for Cardiology I thank the woman whose
heart I held she is a heartfelt Legacy I
can't even express to you how much we
learn from our donors and how important
it is for us to be able to see more than
just the external Anatomy but what is
going on on the
inside each and every one of those
donors was either a mother or a father
father or a son or a daughter who had
dreams and
aspirations and are more than
the the structure that you see in front
of
you the most intimate gift of someone's
own body a gift of knowledge and a gift
we will all forever remember I found
myself particularly emotional when we
were able to hold our donor's Hearts
what a GI that was holding something
that kept someone living for their whole
life the same thing that keeps Us Alive
each day I thought about it
beating what I think is kind of an
untold story not only about the heart
but about these donors is what they
bring for us they bring us to be leaders
they bring us to be teachers they bring
us closer to our
passions to our donors and their friends
thank you so very much we could not be
the healthc Care Professionals we are or
the Health Care Professionals we aspire
to be without you
Videos of Past Ceremonies
Click on links below to access videos of previous anatomy memorial ceremonies.
