Science teacher Drew German demonstrates an Anatomage table in the auditorium at Bradley Central High School on Monday, Feb. 5, 2018 in Cleveland, Tenn. The Anatomage virtual dissection table allows students in health and science courses to manipulate real-life, virtual human cadavers.Bradley Central High School unveiled its newest addition – a virtual dissection table – at an open house Monday night.
The $70,000 digital table, made by Anatomage, allows students in health and science courses to manipulate virtual human cadavers.
“This is a big benefit for our students,” said Bradley Central High health science teacher Cindy Leslie. “The neat things are these are real bodies with their own stories to tell.”
Students in classes such as biology, anatomy, health science and other courses that are part of the school’s certified nursing assistant, agricultural science and first responder programs are able to use the tables during labs. They can view the bodies in myriad ways – through cross cuts, by isolating different systems of the body such as the nerves or the circulatory systems and even explore case studies of different diseases or conditions already available.
“We can identify different organs, bones, muscles, nerve systems,” said Drew German, a Bradley Central High teacher. “It’s sometimes hard for our kids to grasp a concept like how a certain muscle runs from one place to here it’s a lot easier to do it on the table because you can pull up the whole systems.”