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WHAT DO YOU get when you combine artists, anatomists and engineers? The world’s first 3D surface anatomy guide, of course.
A collaboration between these three groups over the past two years in Ireland has let to an online 3D guide “which shows the motions of muscles and the sites of structures from the surface inwards”. This is the first such guide to be created in the world and will be used by medical students, artists and surgical students as a training aid.
The project, which uses 3D technology to bring the anatomical structures to virtual life, was funded by the Science Foundation Ireland and the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland (RCSI), and shown off for the first time at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin yesterday. The computer-based training aid will become part of the curriculum for med students in Dublin, Bahrain and Kuala Lumpur immediately. It will be used to teach anatomy to artists in the RHA school from next year.
According to its creators, the 3D model will help lecturers get round the lack of “willing live models” to show off their bodies. Professor Clive Lee, head of the Department of Anatomy at the RCSI, said that artists and models do not always have access to live models whenever they want to examine surface anatomical structure. He said:
Medical students are reluctant models, so getting one to take off his shirt to demonstrate the surface anatomy of the heart valves can be a challenge. Yet surface anatomy is the basis of clinical examination and students must learn where to listen to the heart, the markings of the liver, the sites of incisions and the movements of joints – in short the site of everything from the outside in.Artists also do not always have access to a live model either, and for them a knowledge of the underlying skeletal and muscular structure is fundamental to drawing and painting the figure.This guide allows us to teach these vital lessons in a richer and more engaging manner and on a more frequent basis.
The team of researchers behind the project include Professor Lee, Dr Valerie Morris of the RCSI, engineers David Corrigan and Anil Kokaram, and artists Mick O’Dea and Una Sealy. It makes use of stereoscopic-3D, a technology that creates the illusion of depth in a two-dimensional image. And yes, to view the new anatomical aid, users will have to don those special 3D goggles (see main pic, above).
This is the tool online – wearing the goggles adds depth of field to viewing the anatomical structure:
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It’ll be like all other government reviews – outcome will be a bunch of recommendations without any accountability for the failures
@Gordon Walsh: And someone will make huge money from carrying out such review.
@Dave Barrett: Yes likely one of the well known consultants whose names are acronyms
A review seems like a reasonable idea. I do think we need to stop making out that every LC student this year has suffered more than any human in history, the language used is way over the top and is unhelpful. Many actually liked not having to do the LC – and who could blame them – and more people are in Third Level than ever before so while some have genuine reasons to feel aggrieved, most got what they wanted or better with the bonus of not having to the LC.
@Diarmaid Mac Aonghusa: I feel the tactical repeat leaving certs got screwed – you know the ones who aim to repeat so they can drop certain subjects in favour of others that are easier to A1s in or get better bonus points.
I think we’d all be happy with a ‘simple sorry lads, but we messed up’ than a lengthy and costly review that will yield no meaningful results
Where did the legal advice for this omnishambles come from in the first place ffs.
The terms of reference for this review will be carefully crafted.
I hope there is a proper plan in place for 2021 leaving cert.Already these kids have been seriously disadvantaged missing three full months,sometimes being asked to leave the classroom because there are too many pupils,no parent teacher meetings,having free classes quite frequently,psychologically disadvantaged because they are not able to focus properly because there may or may not be a Leaving Cert exam.So Norma you better start talking about this now before there is another fiasco.
Review,commision.will take years.how long are them poor tuam babies left in the tank now since the government know about it
A shambles comittee investigating another shamble on tax payers money with no accountability on deadline or budget ceiling, give us shout I can do that
Will this included finding out how the contract was awarded?
Dog in pearls
Very suprised there is an independent review while there is ongoing legal action.
Another waste of time and taxpayers money. Calculated grade system was setup for failure and the result could never have pleased everyone… as a nation we would be better served just to move on and make sure LC 2021 goes ahead. Martin has a reputation of loving to commission a review ( see his time as Min of Health). Accounting firms will be falling over themselves to network for this work.
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