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Fall 2015<\/em>\u00a0| By Wendy Spirduso Sarubbi<\/em><\/p>\n

[lead]Professor Andrew Payer will never forget the 25-year-old patient who entered his office days before a stage 4 brain cancer surgery that could buy the man time \u2014 or kill him. The patient said that if things didn\u2019t work out, he wanted to donate his body to Payer\u2019s medical school lab in Galveston, Texas.[\/lead]<\/p>\n

[photo id=”7224″ title=”Andrew Payer, professor of anatomy at the UCF College of Medicine.” alt=”Andrew Payer, professor of anatomy at the UCF College of Medicine.” position=”left” width=”250px”]Andrew Payer, professor of anatomy at the UCF College of Medicine.[\/photo]\u201cIf I end up [in your lab],\u201d the patient said as he left Payer\u2019s office, \u201ctell your students I was a good guy, and I hope they learn a lot from me.\u201d<\/p>\n

The man died on the operating room table. Months later, when a new class of medical students saw his cadaver and remarked on his youth, Payer told them about saying goodbye to the man and relayed his message. Now a professor of anatomy at the College of Medicine<\/a>, Payer runs the state-of-the-art Anatomy Lab, where he continues to tell this story to convey to his students the importance of the donation that their \u201cfirst patients\u201d have made. Because to Payer, the Anatomy Lab experience is more than an exercise in cataloging organs and body structures \u2014 it\u2019s about understanding life, death and humanity.<\/p>\n

Payer has taught anatomy for almost 40 years and describes UCF\u2019s innovative facility as the lab of his dreams, where technology complements an integrated curriculum incorporating basic and clinical sciences. Memorizing body parts won\u2019t make students good physicians, Payer says. Instead, students need to understand the clinical impact of disease and aging so they can care better for their patients.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Detectives<\/span><\/h2>\n

As part of the Anatomy Lab curriculum, medical students do not know their cadaver\u2019s cause of death \u2014 instead, they spend 17 weeks on a detective mission to determine it<\/a>. They then present their findings to faculty judges, including former Orange-Osceola Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Jan Garavaglia. \u201cThese [students] are made to think … about what they\u2019re finding and put it in a bigger perspective,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s a wonderful thing they\u2019re doing. It\u2019s very novel. … These are the people that we need to take care of us as we get older, so it\u2019s important that we have a good medical school.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Four\u00a0High-tech Tools that UCF Uses\u00a0to Empower Medical Students<\/h2>\n

Digital Anatomy Table<\/h3>\n

The latest innovation is the Anatomage Table, which allows students to virtually isolate and visually dissect countless 3-D layers<\/a> of a digital body. Push a button, and you see every bone in the skeletal system or the web of nerves leading to the brain. Make a digital cut with your finger, and you see a cross section of a patient\u2019s liver. Scan your patient\u2019s head, and see images of every muscle, nerve and artery around the eye. Using an interactive display, students can quiz themselves. The table also allows students to use digital instruments like needles and probes to see how they actually pass through tissues and muscle. Such innovation helps fourth-year students visualize how they will do surgery before they ever enter an operating room.<\/p>\n

Bigger-Than-Life Organs<\/h3>\n

The lab\u2019s 80-inch, high-definition, touch-screen monitor allows faculty and students to compare giant anatomical images in stunning detail. Students can compare a textbook drawing of a heart with a CT scan of their cadaver\u2019s heart, allowing them to understand the human body\u2019s individuality. Detailed images also show how muscles, arteries and organ systems connect and interact, allowing students to work together to solve anatomical issues. Team learning is a key part of the medical school\u2019s curriculum, helping students understand that health care<\/a> is most successful when people work together.<\/p>\n

iPad Education<\/h3>\n

Apple AirPlay technology allows Payer to capture images of unique pathologies with his iPad and project them to every computer screen in the room. Each of the 20 dissection tables has a high-definition screen overhead, and screens also line the lab\u2019s walls. Students don\u2019t have to crowd around one dissection table struggling to see \u2014 they look up from their stations and get a detailed lesson. A recent \u201cfirst patient\u201d had lung cancer that had spread. Thanks to technology, all 120 students saw the cancer and how its metastasis had infiltrated the body.<\/p>\n

CT Scan Collaboration<\/h3>\n

Every year, Central Florida radiologist Dr. Rick Ramnath and his partners at NeuroSkeletal Imaging take full-body CT scans of every cadaver donated to the College of Medicine. The donation gives students experience in medical imaging and a detailed look at clogged arteries, artificial hips and cancerous tumors before they start dissecting. Scans can be viewed on the computer screens at each anatomy table to increase learning opportunities. Ramnath\u2019s donation is inspired by Dr. Deborah German, dean of UCF\u2019s medical school. German was the associate dean for students at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine when Ramnath was a student, and he says she made sure students got the most out of medical school. \u201cWhen I heard [Dr. German] was coming to be dean of Orlando\u2019s new medical school, I had to reach out and do my part to help,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6719,"template":"","categories":[],"tags":[654,657],"class_list":["post-6623","story","type-story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-college-of-medicine","tag-deborah-german","issues-520","issues-summer-2015"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Ultimate College of Medicine Anatomy Lab<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Anatomage Table, Apple AirPlay, high-definition monitors are used by College of Medicine professor Andrew Payer to teach students innovative methods.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link 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