Mixed Reality Humans Teach Med Students
It’s not all textbooks and anatomy labs for medical students these days. Advances in computer technology has opened up many new ways to help these future doctors.
Take for example this pilot study by the University of Florida, the Medical School of Georgia, and a couple of other universities.
They are using a ‘mixed reality human’ consisting of a life size computer avatar on a flat screen TV and a mannequin with a prosthetic breast.
Her name is Amanda Jones and her job is to help teach students how to perform breast exams, an intimate procedure that once could only be learned ‘on …read more
The Museum of Human Disease – A Grisly Find
April 14, 2009 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Exposed!, Extreme, Medical History
Most people head to Sydney, Australia for the sun, the food, and the opera house. Now you can also take in a visit to the Museum of Human Diseases, a Pandora’s box of plague, pestilence and disease in graphic detail.
Used for years as a resource for medical students, this museum at the University of New South Wales has more than 2,000 cadaver parts on display.
It’s not for the weak of stomach. There’s a blackened smoker’s lung on one side and a nectrotic ulcer the size of a cricket ball n the other. The two disembodied white thumbs, macabrely sit in …read more
