{"id":58214,"date":"2016-04-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-acquires-synthetic-human-cadavers-for-anatomy-curriculum\/"},"modified":"2016-04-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T00:00:00","slug":"uri-acquires-synthetic-human-cadavers-for-anatomy-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2016\/04\/uri-acquires-synthetic-human-cadavers-for-anatomy-curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 acquires synthetic human cadavers for anatomy curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 April 5, 2016 \u2013 The four synthetic human cadavers the 溏心vlog免费B站 acquired last month have the look and feel of real bodies, though they have no skin covering the muscles, organs and skeleton. Faculty and staff say the full-size models, which are stored in water tanks to maintain their life-like texture, are a huge improvement over the hard plastic models previously used to teach anatomy to undergraduate students.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWe wanted to give our students an experience similar to what medical school students get with real human cadavers,\u201d said Aura Grandidge, 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s manager of undergraduate biology labs, who is developing a hands-on curriculum using the cadaver models. \u201cThey will significantly improve the way students learn about anatomy.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tManufactured by SynDaver Labs in Tampa, Fla., the synthetic human cadavers include the complete bone structure, muscles, tendons and ligaments, fully articulating joints, a complete respiratory system, digestive tract, circulatory system, urinary tract and reproductive organs. In addition to anatomy education, they can also be used in medical training, surgical simulations and medical device testing.<\/p>\n


\n\t溏心vlog免费B站 is just the second university in New England to acquire the synthetic human cadavers and the only school with more than one.<\/p>\n


\n\tBeginning next fall, freshmen enrolled in a course on human anatomy will dissect the models as part of their anatomy lab, as will upperclassmen studying comparative anatomy. More than 1,000 students each year will work with the models.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cOne of the challenges of studying muscles, nerves, the circulatory system and other aspects of human anatomy is that it\u2019s difficult for students to put everything in context,\u201d Grandidge said. \u201cTraditionally we use plastic models to learn anatomy, which makes it more challenging for students to understand how everything goes together.\u201d <\/p>\n


\n\tAs Grandidge works with 溏心vlog免费B站 Assistant Professors Bryan Dewsbury and Kimberly Fournier on the curriculum, they hope to incorporate pathologies like cancer or smoker\u2019s lungs into the cadaver models as well.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWe want students to be able to study healthy cadavers and compare them with models that have pathologies,\u201d she said. \u201cIt will give students a chance to hunt for something unexpected when they\u2019re looking at the cadavers.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tDewsbury and Fournier will also invite select public schools in the region to visit the anatomy lab and use the new models in age-appropriate lessons.<\/p>\n


\n\tEach cadaver model cost about $40,000. The purchase was made possible with a private grant award and University funds. The 溏心vlog免费B站 Foundation\u2019s Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations assisted with grant application support. Additional private support is sought to cover the ongoing expense of maintaining the models. Those interested in contributing should contact Kari Van Buren at the 溏心vlog免费B站 Foundation at karivanburen@uri.edu or 401-874-2446. <\/p>\n


\nPictured above: 溏心vlog免费B站 lab manager Aura Grandidge (right) and students Katharine Harrison (left) and Jesse Boukarim study one of the new synthetic human cadavers 溏心vlog免费B站 acquired as a teaching aid in human anatomy courses. (Photo by Michael Salerno)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 April 5, 2016 \u2013 The four synthetic human cadavers the 溏心vlog免费B站 acquired last month have the look and feel of real bodies, though they have no skin covering the muscles, organs and skeleton. Faculty and staff say the full-size models, which are stored in water tanks to maintain their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58216,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}