On Friday morning, 21 EMS providers from across the Peninsula donned “bunny suits” at Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center. They weren’t getting dressed for trick-or-treating, though — they were getting ready for a cadaver lab class.

Sentara Williamsburg held six two-hour classes Thursday and Friday, with a total of 107 participants, including current Sentara employees, emergency medical technicians and a pre-med student from William & Mary. Emergency services providers from across the Peninsula attended, including from Chesapeake, Hampton, York County and New Kent County.

Sentara Williamsburg is the only hospital in the area that offers cadaver labs to local EMS; Virginia Commonwealth University and Eastern Virginia Medical School both have cadaver labs, but their respective res

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