Compassionatomy: Can Compassion Contemplative Practices Foster Student Connection with Body Donors and Enhance Empathy in Anatomy Labs?
Medical science educator December 1, 2025 Geoffroy P J C Noel, Federica Klaus, Jenna Tutjer et al.
Compassion training (CT) has been used in medical education to enhance patient care and decrease provider burnout. A growing number of institutions incorporate humanistic practices into anatomy classes; however, there is no report of CT ever being incorporated. The authors hypothesized that implementing CT during a pre-clinical anatomy course, a program called Compassionatomy, would help...