President's Prescription: Dissecting a Virtual Patient - KCBD NewsChannel 11

We have come a long way from the days of the old skeleton model. Technology is changing the way we teach our future health care professionals. Today, students can dissect this patient with a swipe of their finger.

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This high-tech patient delivers on realism. Students can cut the body, peel off soft tissue or remove an organ with their fingers. And unlike cadavers, the students can redo and undo the dissection again and again. For the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, I'm Dr. Tedd Mitchell.

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