Monday, April 10, 2017

Quincy College has purchased a SynDaver, a synthetic cadaver, for students studying phlebotomy, physical therapist assistant and nursing at the school’s Cordage Park campus

PLYMOUTH – The new girl in the science program at Quincy College is getting a lot of healthy exposure.

SynD (pronounced Cindy) is a synthetic cadaver, or SynDaver, that features all the bones, joints, muscles, organs and tendons found in normal human anatomy.

Science students in the Plymouth campus at Cordage Park started working with her this week, using SynD’s 600 muscle composites and 200 bones to enhance their understanding of the intricacies of the body and see and feel for themselves how humans works.

Future nurses in Dr. Dennis Burke’s physiology and anatomy class were the first to lift SynD from the water bath in her dip tank home. They peeled away her synthetic skin just in time to complete studies in how muscles look, feel and interact. “We just started muscles so the timing is perfect,” Burke said Wednesday.

Burke spearheaded the purchase of the Syndaver after seeing the synthetic cadaver pitched on the popular television show, Shark Tank.

Burke had just seen the Shark Tank episode when college officials asked if anyone had any ideas for the next budget cycle. “Timing is everything. I said, ‘I do,’” Burke said.

Quincy College is the first two-year college in Massachusetts to invest in a Syndaver. Lasell College bought the first. The University of Rhode Island has four. Burke visited the university to make sure they were as awesome as advertised.

The synthetic cadaver is part of the $2 million expansion and renovation that celebrates Quincy College’s 25th anniversary of serving South Shore residents from a campus in Plymouth. The renovation expanded the campus footprint at Cordage Park by 45,000 square feet, including the build-out of a new nursing wing with simulation lab space.

Read full article at: http://plymouth.wickedlocal.com/news/20170407/quincy-college-synthetic-cadaver-helps-students-get-feel-for-human-anatom

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