“This provides a great foundation on which first- and second-year medical students can build other critical concepts.”
The university claims that medical students learned anatomical content twice as fast as cadaver dissection.
“The HoloAnatomy Suite represents the future of medical education,” Ilumis CEOMark Daysaid in the news release.
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VR training is less expensive than using cadavers, Masson said.
The Challenges of VR
Making VR cadavers took a lot of work.
“There weren’t even experienced mixed reality programmers out in the worldthe tech didn’t exist before 2014.
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Masson said that one argument against VR was the lack of feeling and texture or three-dimensionality.
Update 1/31/2023: Changed paragraph two to more accurately reflect how the CWRU School of Medicine uses cadavers.
