Medical Visualisation & Human Anatomy

Background

This programme provides a unique opportunity to combine actual cadaveric dissection with 3D digital reconstruction, interaction and visualisation using state of the art virtual reality facilities. It allows students to examine human anatomy, and to reconstruct it in a real-time 3D environment for use in education, simulation, and training. This programme enables students to create original medical datasets, allows a greater understanding of “normal” anatomy and regional variations, and provides a novel approach to aid multi-disciplinary fields in anatomical knowledge, understanding, training and skills transfer.  With the demand from clinicians of anatomical knowledge of students increasing (as a result in changes to medical and dental curricula) this Masters programme provides an ideal opportunity for enhancement of research into human anatomy, diagnostics, simulation, and visualisation.

This M.Sc in Medical Visualisation and Human Anatomy has emerged as a result of successful strategic research collaboration between the School of Life Sciences, University of Glasgow and the DDS, Glasgow School of Art. Recent £1.5 million funding from NHS Education for Scotland has further extended the collaboration to now include key members in the dental, surgical and biological fields to create and develop 3D interactive digital visualisation packages supporting dental education. This award has brought together anatomical, dental, surgical, digital and scientific fields in a key move to allow collaborations with the Glasgow Dental School, Raigmore Hospital (Inverness), LHA and the DDS. These activities will feed back directly into the curriculum of the MSc in Medical Visualisation and Human Anatomy programme.