The Saint James Medical School in Anguilla has enhanced the training programme for its increasing number of students by procuring a new highly technical digital Anatomage Table which is in fact a virtual cadaver.
Professor Claude-Bernard Iliou, Dean of Basic Sciences at Saint James School of Medicine, spoke to The Anguillian newspaper about the digital Anatomage Table on Wednesday, April 17.
“This is a new service that is available for our students to help them understand anatomy much quicker and easier,” he explained. “It is also another resource for the professors, and faculty, to help in the teaching of pathology, neuro-science as well as anatomy.”
He said it made the medical school more competitive and would help students to visualize the body better.
A number of professors who teach various science courses at Saint James Medical School were being trained in the use of the equipment, on Wednesday, by Mr. Alex Layyous, an Application Engineer, who works for the manufacturing company in San Jose, California.
According to him, the digital image on the Anatomage Table was a real person who had died, but whose body was digitally created for study by medical students.
There are similar Anatomage Tables in such Caribbean islands as Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
