The doctors who will graduate from the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific-Northwest will have an edge over their peers when it comes to understanding anatomy as it relates to their patients. <\/p>\n
Because of a partnership between the radiology department at Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital and the medical school, all donor-cadaver-patients are completely imaged before they are transferred to the anatomy lab. <\/p>\n
This allows students a complete picture X-rays, MRIs, CT scans of the patients they are dissecting in class. <\/p>\n
We teach anatomy in the most progressive way that a medical student could receive, said Brion Benninger, M.D., vice chair of the anatomy department for Western University of Health Sciences, COMP-Northwest. <\/p>\n
Not every medical school has an anatomy lab, and those that do often use generic images, not ones directly from the donors being worked on, Benninger said. <\/p>\n
This method of teaching anatomy is important because a family physician cannot dissect a patient to discover the illness, he said. <\/p>\n
Instead, they use images. <\/p>\n
Imagine if youre a student; youre assigned to table three, dissecting that particular body, Benninger explained. When you hit the chest, you say, Wow, look at that heart, its much bigger than I anticipated. These vessels dont look the way theyre supposed to classically be in the book. <\/p>\n
Students may look at the imaging from that body and see firsthand what that heart looked like on an X-ray or other image. <\/p>\n
That sort of imagery, you never forget it. Never, Benninger said. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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