(AGENPARL) – HAMMOND mar 23 maggio 2023

Students in anatomy, physiology, and nursing courses at Purdue University Northwest (PNW) are training with a more in-depth and interactive view of the human body thanks to two high-tech Anatomage tables being steered by faculty members in the department of Biological Sciences and the College of Nursing.

The tables function as interactive 3D visualizations of the human anatomy that demonstrate the interconnectedness of various bodily functions, but can also essentially serve as a virtual cadaver to benefit pathophysiology lessons. The tables are used in the state-of-the-art Nils K. Nelson Bioscience Innovation Building and the Technology Building.

The tables come preprogrammed with several cadavers whose families donated their stories to be used with the tables. The tables allow users to go layer by layer with the body to essentially virtually dissect it and determine the factors that contributed to a person’s ailments.

Julia Rogers, assistant professor of Nursing, says the technology is a major positive for beginning and advanced Nursing students. Rogers says undergraduate students are focused on assessment with the signs and symptoms of ailments while graduate students go the next step of diagnosing and recommending treatments.

“For my master’s program, we did not have cadavers, so we did a lot of things in the lab. We went to clinicals and saw real patients, but the problem is, in your head, you are just looking at 2D images in your book that say ‘this is what the inside of the body looks like when this disease is happening, now you have to figure out how all of that connects.’”

“But the tables actually give the students that viewpoint from the inside. So I think they are going to be much better at not only assessing but being able to put a path in place — this is the patient’s complaint, so here are the body sections I need to be looking at.”

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