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‘Our First Teachers’: Medical and PA Students Honor Anatomy Donors

Families, faculty, and students gathered at The Anlyan Center for the annual Service of Gratitude, held at the end of the year-long Anatomy course in which first-year medical and PA students learn the structures within the human body through dissection. The ceremony honors the lives of those who donated their bodies to make the students’ anatomy training possible.

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  • At the Intersection of Medicine and Meaning

    In a Q&A, Yale School of Medicine's Benjamin Doolittle, MD, MDiv, discusses his path into medicine and theology, what it means to think beyond “cure,” and how clinicians can approach healing more holistically.

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  • Yale Med/Peds Residents Explore Role as Healers in New Arts-Healing Workshop

    The Yale Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Residency Program emphasizes culture building and bonding in an effort to better themselves as healers and caregivers. Every year, Benjamin Doolittle, MD, MDiv, program director, chooses a theme for his residency program. This year, the theme was “The Eras of Medicine” and Doolittle together with his residents explored the history of the role of healer. In keeping with the program’s theme for the year, the residents collaborated with New Haven’s Ely Center of Contemporary Art, directed by Aimée Burg, to create a work of art that explored the relationship between healing and the creation of art.

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  • A life of faith and science

    It’s not unusual for academics to wear a dizzying array of hats. The same is true of doctors, while clergy lives are often also a juggling act. What is less common is for one person to combine all three roles.

    Source: Darwin College, University of Cambridge
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