Medical Visualisation & Human Anatomy

Programme Aims

The M.Sc in Medical Visualisation and Human Anatomy aims to provide high-end dissection of key areas of the human body to inform clinically applied situations of important anatomical structures. It will also enable students to digitally reconstruct biomedical data to enhance education and training of future professionals.

Aims of the programme include:

• To develop students’ awareness and knowledge base in 3D applications of digital technology, laser scanning technology, applications in medical science, and application of anatomy and related variation in the clinical setting

• To provide a practical introduction to commercial medical visualisation software and use them to interactively explore, manipulate and understand bio-medical data coming from all types of sources and modalities

• To encourage students to identify and explore key cadaveric dissection techniques and cadaveric dissection of clinically relevant areas

• To detail key areas of clinically relevant anatomy, including regional anatomical variation

• To enable students to build detailed understanding of anatomical legislation relevant to laboratory practice, including the Bequeathal process

• To develop students’ understanding of the functioning of health and safety applied to a laboratory dealing with human body donations

• To encourage research in human anatomy of the cadaver, medical visualisation, visual diagnostics, and simulation

On successful completion of the M.Sc in Medical Visualisation and Human Anatomy programme, students will be able to:

• Demonstrate a broad understanding of effective methods of visualising medical data in order to pick out key information from large data streams. 

• Demonstrate practical skills of using commercial visualisation software and Virtual Reality/user interfaces within medical science.

• Communicate effectively with clients and colleagues in a real-life medical context, using accepted anatomical language to describe the normal structure of the human body.

• Be able to follow laboratory protocol and develop experience in dissection techniques.

• Apply research techniques to an independent research project based on the collection and visualisation of medical data.