{"id":44520,"date":"2013-09-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2013\/09\/27\/anatomical-donors-play-key-role-in-future-of-medicine\/"},"modified":"2022-08-29T14:38:32","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T19:38:32","slug":"anatomical-donors-play-key-role-in-future-of-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2013\/09\/27\/anatomical-donors-play-key-role-in-future-of-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Anatomical donors play key role in future of medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/genetics\/deeded_body.htm\">Paul Becker<\/a> prefers the word &quot;donor.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\nHe meets the donors&#039; families &ndash; close to 225 a year. He&#039;s the one who fields their questions, walks them through the process.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe serves as the face of the institutions that will receive their family members &#8212; what some people call cadavers &#8212; and use them to educate a new generation of health care professionals.<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd when the donors&#039; &quot;teaching time,&quot; in Becker&#039;s words, is complete, he contacts these families to arrange for the return of the urn of their loved one.<\/p>\n<p>\nIt is a responsibility, but it&#039;s also the heart of his program, said Becker, who is the manager and only full-time employee of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donatemybody.org\/\">Nebraska Anatomical Board<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\nBecker has 30 years of experience as a licensed mortician, the last 11 of which he has spent working for the board, receiving donors and sending them to the state&rsquo;s two medical schools &ndash; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/\">University of Nebraska Medical Center<\/a>, where he is based, and <a href=\"http:\/\/medschool.creighton.edu\/\">Creighton University<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe does not consider his donors teaching tools. In fact, he considers them teachers.<\/p>\n<p>\n&quot;The donor is very much a teacher,&quot; he said. &quot;The donor provides a method of learning that is not possible any other way, and that&#039;s the value of the donation.<\/p>\n<p>\n&quot;The medical professionals who are trained by that donor, one of them might be the one that discovers the cure for cancer, or diabetes, or another of the different diseases out there,&quot; he said. &quot;And it&#039;s an exciting thought to be part of that, even if it may be far into the future.<\/p>\n<p>\n&quot;A relative of mine who&#039;s been a radiologist for 30 years says he&#039;s never had a day go by when he&#039;s at work where he doesn&#039;t remember something he learned from his donor.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\nBecker&#039;s donors usually stay in the medical program for about 18 to 24 months, he said. At Creighton and UNMC, the donors leave the program with a memorial service, designed by the medical students as a way to thank the donors and their families for their help.<\/p>\n<p>\n&quot;It&#039;s a chance for the medical students to understand that their donor was the loved one of a family, and it&#039;s also a chance for the families of the donors to understand the importance of what their loved one did, and the good that it will do far into the future,&quot; Becker said.<\/p>\n<p>\nFor information on becoming a donor, go to the Nebraska Anatomical Board&#039;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donatemybody.org\/\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Through world-class research and patient care, UNMC generates breakthroughs that make life better for people throughout Nebraska and beyond. Its education programs train more health professionals than any other institution in the state. 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