Body, Organ and Tissue Donation for Medical Teaching

The ANU Medical School’s Anatomy Laboratories, located at both the Canberra Hospital and on the ANU campus, are licensed as a School of Anatomy and accept body donations made by members of the public who wish to make this unique contribution to anatomical studies and advancement of medicine. The opportunity to examine and dissect the human body is a privilege and the ANU Medical School is extremely grateful to those members of the public who donate their bodies after death. This generosity is one of the reasons why the standard of Australian medical practitioners is so high.

A Surgical Specimen Teaching Museum (SSTM) has also been established within the School of Anatomy of the ANU Medical School. The SSTM is to provide a collection of specimens that will principally be housed within the ANU Medical School and the Canberra Hospital, so that the donated specimens can be used for teaching medical students, as well as ACT Health nurses and trainee doctors. The SSTM is an important teaching resource for the teaching of anatomy and pathology at the ANU Medical School.