Faridkot medical college shows the way

Tribune News Service

Faridkot, March 18

To make visual 3D human body models available to medical students, a one-of-its-kind health training venue in the country was started today at Guru Gobind Singh Medical College here.

Calling it an unparalleled training programme for healthcare professionals, Dr Raj Bahadur, Vice-Chancellor of the Baba Farid University of Health Sciences (BFUHS), said though Cadaver-based study was a must in the practical lab training to create quality doctors, in the present times this was a difficult source to impart study due to high cost and environment issues. Cadaver was a scientific study of human anatomy using a human body.

Hence, the college in Faridkot, which is a constituent of the BFUHS, has set up a smart class built by cloudatomy-visible body’s interactive and visual 3D human body models that were now available to students enrolled in health care degree programmes here. Visible body content was accessible on computers at the college’s new state-of-the-art smart class centre for learning, innovation and simulation, said Dr Raj Bahadur.

Today, the world was moving away from ‘traditional’ books to searchable content on the web. Students use YouTube videos to take help in studies instead of text books. Hence, the cloudatomy development teams are focusing on providing colleges with software that is easy for students and instructors to use in health care courses and anatomy labs. The team works with instructors to match VB models, animations, and activities to the college curriculum.

Visible body content was available at Guru Gobind Singh College’s new centre. The nursing and MBBS programmes had plan to use visible body’s courseware to create visual and interactive homework assignments that keep students engaged outside the lab environment, said the VC.

The BFUHS was 5th-of-its-kind medical university in the country and first in the northern India which was a ‘pacesetter’ in developing appropriate modes and models of health care. The university committed to providing community oriented need-based education and training programmes for health professionals, he said.