For four days in May, 10 Clay High School students in Kathy Jeskey’s anatomy/physiology class participated in a unique hands-on learning opportunity dissecting human cadavers.

Last summer, Jeskey took a three-week course on the human body at The University of Toledo Medical College, which, in turn, allowed her to revisit the cadaver lab with her students.

The Clay students, along with students from four other schools, began each day with a lecture overview. Afterward, they suited up in protective gowns and got to work in the anatomy lab, where they had the task of removing skin and identifying various muscles and tendons. They used instruments of dissection, such as a bone saw, to cut the rib cage and extract the heart and lungs and examined in detail organs of the digestive system and structures of the reproductive system.

Clay High School students who attended a four-day workshop at The University of Toledo Medical College included (front) Kelly Schaefer, Kylee Ault and Amanda Webb and (back) Emily Gunner, Madison Rhienbolt, Al Roberts, Emina Causevic, Mary Mominee, Kelsey Knoop, Brandon Stribrny, and teacher Kathy Jeskey.

Students also got an up-close view of diseases that caused the death of their cadavers, such as lung cancer, kidney failure and heart disease.

(Reprinted with permission from The Oregon Oracle)

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