title: Privileged learning.
abstract: Students often attain memorable experiences from cadaver dissections through reflective writing. For many, facing a dissection for the first time elicits a wide range of emotions. These may include thoughts of their own mortality to the sheer admiration of knowing that someone cared enough to help others learn about the body, even in death. Poems or stories from medical students are often moving and heartfelt, and warrant being shared.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, School of Medicine, University of Colorado-Denver, 13070 East 19th Avenue, Aurora, CO 80045, USA. norma.wagoner@uchsc.edu
authors.forename: Norma E
authors.initials: NE
authors.lastname: Wagoner
authors.forename: Josina M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Romero-O'Connell
mesh_terms: D000715:Anatomy / Q000193:education*; D002102:Cadaver; D004210:Dissection; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D004644:Emotions; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D014956:Writing