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Making the Cut: Five Undergraduate Students Selected for Prestigious International Prosection Program
Ernest F. Talarico, Jr., (left) Ph.D., assistant director of medical education at IUSM–NW and creator of the Human Cadaver Prosection Program, congratulates the students, who were selected from more than 200 applicants. The students include (from left) Kimberly Giordano; Tania Patel; Norberto Mancera; Yaneve Shemesh; and Andrew Glickman, who also participated in the 2009 program.
Five students from the Farquhar College of Arts of Sciences have been selected to participate in the 11th annual International Human Cadaver Prosection Program at the Indiana University School of Medicine—Northwest (IUSM-NW) in Gary, Indiana, Aug. 4–5.
Each year, individuals bequeath their bodies to medical education and basic scientific and clinical research. The International Human Cadaver Prosection Program recruits individuals interested in medical school and clinical and basic sciences and educates them in anatomy, dissection, and radiology. These trained candidates (“prosectors”) then dissect the “donors for use by student doctors” in human gross anatomy classes. The two-day program is an intensive educational experience for students pursuing careers in medicine. It also provides them valuable networking opportunities with other students and professionals in the field.
Selected this year from the college to participate in the prestigious program were Kimberly Giordano; Andrew Glickman, who also participated in the 2009 program; Norberto Mancera; Tania Patel; and Yaneve Shemesh. The students are among 42 selected from more than 200 applicants worldwide. This is the largest number of students from NSU to participate in a single year.
On May 5, Ernest F. Talarico, Jr., Ph.D., assistant director of medical education at IUSM-NW and the creator of prosection program, visited NSU to speak about the program and officially acknowledge the selected students, calling them “highly qualified” for the experience.
Talarico presented a talk titled “Good and Evil: The International Human Cadaver Prosection Program and More.” The “evil,” he said, refers to those who are deathly ill; but the “good” is the fact that people will donate their bodies to science, which makes this program possible.
At the request of Talarico, on Aug. 3, Mark Jaffe, D.P.M., associate professor in the college’s Division of Math, Science, and Technology, will present a suture workshop for the students participating in the prosection program in Indiana. The five students from the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences will assist Jaffe with teaching the workshop.