NSU-COM
The Donation that Keeps on Giving
by Anna Roman-Pleschko
Chapter Treasurer
Anna Roman-Pleschko
As future osteopathic physicians, our curriculum emphasizes the study of anatomy upon which AT Still built the osteopathic principles. As we traveling the path of becoming future osteopaths, we have been lead by professors, mentors, other physicians and even our own peers. While being immersed in the context of the textbooks, notes, lectures and seas of information, many of us have failed to recognize that our cadaver donors have also been teachers to us. They are our first patients that have given us a unique opportunity, even amongst other medical students, to learn from the most sacred source of information: the human body.
The skin is like a curtain that covers the very structures that we will spend the rest of our medical careers attempting to heal or maintain in health and full function. Having an opportunity to unveil that curtain and see what lies beneath has not only been a gratifying experience, but also one that is going to leave us with knowledge that cannot be compared to images, videos, descriptive text, explanation, or even virtual simulation.
As a student body of Nova Southeastern University, College of Osteopathic Medicine and with members of our chapter of the Student American Academy of Osteopathy, we have helped organized a memorial service to commemorate our greatest teachers. During this ceremony we sang, we laughed, we planted their seeds of life, we said good-bye, and most of all we thanked them for the opportunity they have given us.
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