medical education
Boston’s Additive Edge: Harvard’s MEDscience Takes High Schoolers Into the Future of Medicine
Forget chalkboards and worksheets. At Harvard Medical School’s MEDscienceTECH Program, students learn medicine by building, coding, and experimenting – whether it’s navigating a LEGO robot through a 3D printed spine,…
3D Technologies Change the Face of Healthcare
Not a day goes by when we don’t see a story about how modern technology is changing the face of medicine. 3D technologies in particular are causing fundamental shifts both…
3D Printed Skin: New Zealand Designer Streamlines Medical Training in Sutures
While it’s certainly always preferable to practice on the real thing, or a cadaver, medical students are, after all, students. In teaching situations, sometimes patients generously have to suck it…
Training Pediatric Surgeons Using 3D Printed Rib Cages
One of the difficulties of training new entrants into the medical field is the leap from text knowledge to hands on care. One of the ways to approach that transition…
New App and 3D Printed Models Provide Tools for Study of Human Embryo
One of the difficulties facing medical education is that the human body exists in three dimensions and requires study in three dimensions. This means that in order to appropriately understand…
