UMass Medical Using Virtual Anatomy To Teach Students

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BOSTON (CBS) Human anatomy is one of the first courses a student has to take in medical school to study the bodys organs, nerves, vessels and more.

Human cadavers have always been used for this purpose and probably always will be but UMass Medical School now has a new, high-tech tool at their disposal which is giving doctors a view into the body like never before.

Third year medical students Scott Pascal and Pamela Lu are getting a lesson on human anatomy, but instead of dissecting a cadaver, theyre viewing the deep layers of the human body using this virtual anatomy table.

Going through anatomy, when you move from structure-to-structure, you often have to remove things and peel back things and when you get to the end of the block you want to go back to things you learned in the beginning. This would be amazing for that, Lu said.

Its full size and life-size and can do a lot of manipulation that other software cant do, Pascal said.

UMass is one of the first medical schools in New England to acquire one of these tablets. The technology cost them about $80,000.

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UMass Medical Using Virtual Anatomy To Teach Students