Acknowledgments Macchabée

Dear Medical students, course 2018!

Excellencies everybody,

Every year, on the last Friday of the last month of the year, the Faculty of Medicine, Phan Chau Trinh University, will hold a Macchabée ceremony - A ceremony to pay tribute to those who have donated their bodies to Medicine. Surely among us, you have heard more or less about this holiday, but perhaps very few of you fully understand the meaning, purpose and history of Macchabée. As a doctor in the future, we should find out more about this meaningful ceremony.

Originating in the West around the beginning of the sixteenth century, the "Those who gave their bodies to Medicine" - the "Macchabée" ceremony - is an indispensable ceremony for all medical students entering the year. first. At that time and now, in medical schools, anatomy was a compulsory subject, a basic subject, but at that time students were only allowed to practice on animal carcasses because of prejudices and pressure from religion. And the name Macchabée is derived from the name of a French doctor: Judas Macchabée, who along with his colleagues and students had to secretly dig graves, steal corpses to be buried, or snoop on dead bodies. Unclaimed people on the way back and secretly hide in the cellars for surgery. To commemorate the "silent teachers", Dr. Macchabée set up a ceremony, taking the last Friday of December each year as the day of celebration, because according to Christianity Jesus died on Friday. The ceremony was conducted very secretly and the attendees had to be absolutely loyal to the teachers because if exposed, the religious court would put both teachers and students on the crematorium. Later, when religious prejudice ended, the word Macchabée became the name for the tribute to those who donated to medicine, and according to the medical dictionary, Macchabée also means "corpse".

Macchabée is a unique cultural icon, popular in Western countries, demonstrating diversity in rituals and visual arts. The festival is deeply human, expressing the grief and blessings of the living for the dead, thereby sending the desire for happiness and equality to all. Although today, medical students have easy access to advanced teaching and learning facilities, modern anatomical models, but all cannot replace the human corpses of the deceased. before that, at the time of his birth he vowed to dedicate his body to Medicine.

True to its name, the Macchabée ceremony is to pay tribute to those who have devoted their bodies to the cause of medical education and research. As you all know, anatomy is the first door that we must pass before entering the world of medicine. And the organs in the body will never be discovered, without the teachers (please be allowed to call those who gave their bodies to Medicine teachers) bravely dared to dedicate themselves to Medicine. after losing. It will never be a meaningless departure. Those people - those who, even after taking their breath, want to give away, for what each person often treasures himself so much is the body. There are still muscles and flesh, they do not regret because they simply understand that their work contributes significantly to the career of training future physicians not only with expertise but also rich in moral service. human. They have returned to the afterlife, but their dedication and sacrifices for the cause of medical education, the valuable lessons they silently give are still kept in the pages of books, pages of medical students and the whole. humanity in the world. Because of such profound meanings, the Gratitude Ceremony of Macchabée is always held every year for all students and faculty of domestic and foreign medical schools in general and Phan Chau Trinh University's Faculty of Medicine in particular. pay deep respect and gratitude to those who gave their bodies - silent teachers.

This Friday, January 11, 2019, the Faculty of Medicine, Phan Chau Trinh University, will take place the Gratitude Ceremony - Macchabée under the guidance of Prof.Dr. Dr. Bui Duy Tam, please join him in lighting up the faces and offering fresh chrysanthemums to express deep gratitude to those who have donated bodies to Medicine, for whom "Waterfall is the body, The soul is the elite "(Nguyen Du). To those lying here, they seem to still have both, still with every blood vessel, muscle, every part with the teachings and still has the essence of every spring coming in every holiday. tribute to the tradition.

Sincerely grateful!

PICTURES OF MORNING CEREMONY MACCHABÉE

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