Photos emerge of a time when med students posed with cadavers

Such 'childish and disrespectful behaviour' was probably commonplace in the US 30 years ago, says professor

A moment of ill-judged jest two decades ago has come back to haunt US medical students after “childish and disrespectful” photos of them mocking cadavers came to light.

The photos, dug up in old Yale Medical School yearbooks, show students posing with cadavers, with some captions laden with sexual innuendo, Yale News reports.