By Kitty Conley kconley@post-trib.com September 29, 2014 8:34PM

Victoria Connelly | Photo by Matt Cashore

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Updated: September 29, 2014 10:55PM

Victoria Connelly is a Crown Point native. She spent the summer between her junior and senior years at St. Marys College, Notre Dame, Indiana, in The International Human Cadaver Prosection Program.

This is a prestigious hands-on medical program, at Indiana University School of Medicine Northwest.

This biology and music double major student plans to enter a doctoral program in physical therapy after graduating in the spring of 2015, St. Marys College spokeswoman Gwen OBrien said.

Connelly feels that while she is in the Doctoral PT program that will help her discover if she prefers sports or injury PT work. While she has applied to a number of places for graduate school, some are: IUPUI; University of Indianapolis; and Grand Valley State in Allendale, Michigan.

According to IUN, this program offers volunteers more than just an anatomy lesson. It gives participants an invaluable experience in teamwork. The student volunteers get involved from the day that the medical school receives the body of the deceased person with the delivery and storage of donor cadavers through medical imagine and teaching classes. These students are always reminded of the humans that have helped them to learn by the Service of Remembrance and Thanksgiving for IUN Medical Schools Donors and letters to families of the donors.

This experience is part of her growth as a student at St. Marys College. Connelly says that Saint Marys professors solidified her passion for the human body and science.

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