Does an EMP require extra staff?
A. Dr. A. Kumar, head anatomist at Tufts University reports, “The Client Donation Program is no more labor intensive than procuring the animals by other, more traditional methods such as purchasing purpose-bred animals.”1 Under less than ideal circumstances Dr. Kumar has made a success of Tufts’ Client Donation Program. For the first few years, Dr. Kumar embalmed all donated animals himself while serving as course instructor for both small and large animal gross anatomy as well as maintaining a research program. In addition, until 2000, Dr. Kumar had to split his activity between two campuses 40 miles apart. In recent years, Dr. Kumar has employed 2 or 3 students part-time to assist in embalming donated animals. He reports that it only takes one day to train a student to embalm cadavers. According to Dr. Kumar, there are no problems associated with embalming donated bodies 2-3 days after euthanasia, as long as the cadavers are refrigerated. Therefore, the staff does not need to be avai
