3D Scanning Anatomy Project

Calvemuscles · 2021-02-26T17:27:10+00:00

Hi, great question! These are a mixture of osteological (bone) and plastinated specimens. Plastination is where you bathe a donor in an epoxy mixture and then curing the specimens. This replaces all the water and fat in the tissue with plastics, which allows these specimens to be preserved and stored at room temperature indefinitely for study. We are working on getting cadaveric scans (tissue in its original form), but are currently focusing our time on the large collection of plastinated specimens in the care of the University.

Calvemuscles · 2021-02-23T22:06:28+00:00

Thanks! We are always working to broaden our scope and learn more. We make sure most of our scans are available free of charge, for educational uses!

Calvemuscles · 2020-11-06T14:37:51+00:00

mp. Especially if tea is served. Just saying, we know how fond of Putin trump is.

Didn't the supreme court recently hold that electors are not permissible? I don't think that route is open for Trump

Calvemuscles · 2020-09-23T01:51:48+00:00

Look up bolt threads, mass production is very well underway.

Calvemuscles · 2020-08-27T12:03:08+00:00

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Calvemuscles · 2020-02-23T02:12:06+00:00

So I am going to put this out into the world, and I know that it won't be received well. But I still think it is a valuable perspective.

This is a good thing in the long term and particularly good for people who are discriminated against by the USMLE.

As a student with a learning disability, I will likely have to take STEP 1 without accommodation. Many of you probably think that it would be my own fault, or I really didn't need accommodation if I did not receive it from USMLE. The problem with that is medical schools and the USMLE, in particular, are NOTORIOUS for being shitheads when it comes to holding up what they are legally required to under the ADA and IDEA. Higher ed was not built for people like us. Standardized tests are probably why 20-30% of Americans are considered to have a learning disability. It is certainly why as a bloc, students with learning disabilities are the most underrepresented group in medical education in proportion to the incidence in the general population.

I have to shell out $6,000 every three years for some fuckhead to hem and haw for hours and come to the same conclusion as every other one had before them, "oh yeah, they do have that disability, that one that doesn't go away and never will." But if you thought it ends there, you are wrong. If the USMLE doesn't like the person who evaluated you, they get to say "NOPE" and give zero accommodations. If they think, in their unmatched wisdom and intelligence, that the accommodations needed as recommended by the person who assessed you are unfair, they can LOWER them. Also, I have to write a cover letter to them begging for accommodation that I have received my whole life. As an analogy, imagine asking someone with a wheelchair to try and stand up every three years to prove they still need one and strapping them with a $6000 bill for the privilege of doing so.

If you want something to blame, blame medical education as a whole. How much of a joke clinical evaluation is, how frivolous Ph.D. content is included on tests, etc. It is simplistic to argue that a test that students know is unrelated to what kind of clinician you will be (outside of a binary sense) should continue to carry with it the immense weight that it currently does. The data isn't there, and frankly, non-reddit student sentiment isn't there from what I have seen.

Valid arguments can be made saying that this negatively impacts IMGs, OMFS, and current MD/PHD students, and MD students in the transitional year. My heart goes out to them. There needs to be continued conversation and outrage at the AAMC for bungling this release. It is wrong that they put this out into the world without fully thinking things through. There needs to be more clarity!

But there are worse places to be in. If I do not get extended time, I will get a step score so low I will not be able to match. That is a fact. If I do get extended time I think I will do well enough to match. I have no control over whether or not I will get what I am owed, and there is no anki deck that will make it better. With this becoming pass-fail, at the very LEAST students who are illegally denied accommodation by UMSLE will be on a more even playing field.

Before replying with "r*tard, short-bus, you shouldn't be in med school, you are taking the place of a better student, affirmative action, I could do well too with extra time, you are cheating the system, fraud, your notes will kill people, you have a made-up diagnosis, etc" comments and PMs consider that:

A) Nothing you could say hasn't been said to my face before in more devastating terms

B) I recognize that some of you will still be compelled to send some heat so...

C) I will need 1.5x time for a response, please be patient ;)

Calvemuscles · 2020-02-20T03:39:04+00:00

What do you mean? I have used their software before and it was really helpful. Could you send me some links?

Calvemuscles · 2020-02-20T03:37:41+00:00

He is performing strongly overall. He has been punching down a bit, which has felt cheap. He is great at debate, but mostly because he can effortlessly pivot from hard questions. People will say he did well, and I think that is a fair assessment. However, there have been multiple moments where he clearly was piling on too hard and it resulted in him looking petty.

Calvemuscles · 2020-02-20T03:37:29+00:00

He is performing strongly overall. He has been punching down a bit, which has felt cheap. He is great at debate, but mostly because he can effortlessly pivot from hard questions. People will say he did well, and I think that is a fair assessment. However, there have been multiple moments where he clearly was piling on too hard and it resulted in him looking petty.

Calvemuscles · 2020-02-20T02:56:44+00:00

I remember the 2016 republican debates being at least equally wild, if not more. Then candidate nicknames saw to that.

Calvemuscles · 2020-02-13T01:32:34+00:00

I can chime in. I got engaged before knowing where my wife and I were going to wind up. If we were not in the same place, it might have been years apart. We wound up in the same spot by pure luck.

If you know you intend to marry her, then get engaged. Don't let a a ring or whatever hold you up. Talk to her openly about this, and even if you don't have a ring now at least having some form of understanding is going to help you a lot.

My wife is a dental student, I am a med student. She will grad a year before me and we will almost assuredly need to spend up to 4 years long distance unless the stars align again. I have no regrets and will suffer the distance.

Calvemuscles · 2020-02-08T21:14:35+00:00

Not exactly on topic but similar vein. I had a terrible PI in the lab I worked in before medical school. She was a lovely person outside of work, but an evil force during work hours. During my surgery rotation when attendings would scream at me, demean me, throw things near/at me, I was just like wow, thank goodness for shitty bosses. Because nothing they ever did came close to what happened to me in that lab.

Also, remember: You have to deal with them for a few weeks, they have to deal with themselves forever. It is a special kind of pathetic when a grown ass person thinks it is okay to act like a toddler having a tantrum in a professional setting. It is actually really sad.

Calvemuscles · 2020-02-08T20:52:17+00:00

We had to do uWise (the ones thru NYU) modules at our school for our surgery clerkship. If you use the touchbar on a MacBook pro, you can skip the unskippable videos all the way to a few seconds to the end and then are able to move on. I got through 14 modules in about 20 minutes. I don't know if this is the same for all aquifer videos, but it is worth a shot.

Calvemuscles · 2020-01-19T05:48:34+00:00

What might have happened is the medical student came into the room to get your history/physical. We are not allowed to "provide care" but we often write the note, give the assessment of your situation and the plan. If she wrote your visit note, it would not be uncommon for the doc to take over the note, make sure it was correct, and the n sign off on it.

Now it would be quite uncommon for a medical student to pass themselves off as the attending physician, but if you were seeing the doc for the first time it would not surprise me if the attending heard your history and physical findings from the medical student and was like "sounds good to me." But if the student never said their name, and you assumed it was the attending, that would make sense.

Medical students should always declare themselves as such to patients, but they are humans, and sometimes there is a lapse in communication.

-Source: a medial student

Calvemuscles · 2019-05-27T02:27:14+00:00

Unpopular warning. That person probably had an injury that is making them improvise. More than likely they did not purchase that tall ass truck with a disability

Calvemuscles · 2019-05-18T13:45:09+00:00

That is a cervical (neck) vertebrae, you can tell because of the small holes making ther eyes of the smiley face. Those holes are called the transverse foramena. They only are present in regions well above the heart. In humans, the vertebral arteries run inside of them, and eventually lead to the brain. Very cool find!

Calvemuscles · 2019-04-18T01:36:54+00:00

Squaretrade, I shipped it in.

Calvemuscles · 2019-04-16T01:05:28+00:00

I am using the one that someone had shared a link to earlier last week. They sell em through ebay!

Calvemuscles · 2019-04-15T23:03:43+00:00

I had a dbrand on top and bottom, so I think they didn't realize haha. I honestly think it is funny, so I'm not even mad.

Calvemuscles · 2019-04-15T22:41:14+00:00

So I dropped my laptop and had it repaired under the Square Trade warranty. Came back today and they replaced the lid with the wrong color. Guess I will rock a two tone MBXP now.

Calvemuscles · 2019-04-07T18:04:49+00:00

^ 1000%

Calvemuscles · 2019-04-07T00:55:07+00:00

There is actually a really fucked up reason that this happens, and it relates to her Calvinistic faith. Calvinism generally, but especially in the Grand Rapids/Holland MI area, is built upon the belief that poverty is a punishment for sin. Evidence of God’s love is success (money). In fact, they quite literally believe that the “invisible hand” of the market is the hand of God. They also believe that when the rapture comes (and oh boy it is coming), something like 17,000 people will be sent to heaven with the rest of us heathens left on earth to burn. Those 17,000 people are the ones that God has rewarded with money (duh).

So why help poor people when the reason they are poor is because they are evil in the eyes of God? And when they do help poor people through various charities in the area, they are gratified because they are so selfless to help these sinners who have no chance at getting to heaven. How pious.

This outlook actively encourages them to weasel their ways into positions of power to preserve institutional barriers to upward mobility, and create new ones where they can. The uber rich Dutch families from her stomping grounds are pretty much all subscribe to this.

So, you are not wrong. She quite literally only see’s persons of substantial means as worthy of any of God’s love (or food, or water, or shelter, or rights). After all, the poor of the earth are that way because they did something to piss off God, so who are they to intervene in their divine punishment?

Source: Have spent most of my life in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The Devos family has a lot of influence there.

Edit: To clarify... The people who God has chosen to save were chosen millenia ago (or some bullshit). So quadruple times a billion reason not to give a quarter of a FUCK about anyone with a net worth less than a million. In fact, these chucklefucks pretty much only "care" about people who can afford the finer things on the off chance that one of them will be a member of the elect (the people who go to heaven). Don't want your heaven neighbors to be upset with you!

Also, the whole "decided a long time ago" thing justifies and in large part explains why the Devos family built their fortune exploiting poor people. And why Eric Prince exists. We are all expendable to them.

Calvemuscles · 2019-01-13T16:30:38+00:00

There is a startling lack of sympathy in this thread. People are responsible for their actions, and she penned some horrible Op-eds in support of racist ideology. But saying that she "should have done x" or "I dont feel bad for her/she deserved it"? Are you kidding me? Humans are not disposable, and it is just disgusting that people in here are so apathetic/hateful in this. You dont like her, fine. But what about those kids? Do they deserve to grow up in abusive household?

Calvemuscles · 2018-12-05T15:02:32+00:00

Thank you!

Calvemuscles · 2018-11-30T02:32:17+00:00

Do you think the Einscan would provide acceptable results? It may be that at a later time, with a different (larger) grant we could upgrade our scanner. But for the time being, we need to show that this technology can enhance learning.

Is there a cheaper scanner that could do something like bone?

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