The University of Hawaiʻi John A. Burns School of Medicine announced that it will not accept new enrollments for the Willed Body Program due to an overwhelming amount of interest and limited space.
The JABSOM program allows people to plan to donate their bodies after death for use in medical science and education by students training to become physicians, emergency medical technicians, forensic anthropologists and more.
Starting Aug. 22, the program will not accept or process new Anatomical Gift Donation forms. Planned donations require the original form to be completed by that date in order to be processed. Any paperwork received after the deadline will be returned.
This indefinite pause does not apply to those currently enrolled as donors…