Group 3

Cordilia Chan, Eunice Chan, Helen Chui, Hebe Lai, Teresa Lai

15^th August, 2014

It was always great to learn human biology in textbooks, but it is a ton more fascinating to actually enter a dissection lab and feel the organs in our hands. They were real organs dissected from corpses, all of us just looked absolutely like professional anatomists when we wore gloves and observed the structure of the organs. We got the chance to hold and examine real limbs, heart, lungs, liver and kidneys, etc. There was an Anatomage Table that was created by Stanford. It was awesome to see how technology can be incorporated into the teaching of Anatomy. There was even a complete scan of a man which took eight years to accomplish. We got to see rare cases provided by the hospitals, for example a pair of conjoined twins, a badly damaged leg which has to be supported by large screws and a woman with ectopic pregnancy. The medical department has developed systems for medical students to study different organs using tablets and computers. The most amazing part was the Oculous. It feels like we were inside a person’s body and exploring the internal structures. Since a lot of us would like to be doctors in the future, it was really a very valuable learning experience. At night, we did our final presentations. We chose to present on the topic intuitive problem solving in the form of a crime investigation. We were proud and satisfied with our performance, as we actually applied what we have learnt in the intuitive problem solving course, which was to think out of the box and try new presentation styles. We took away precious knowledge and skills which we can totally apply in our daily lives.