STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that its range of Netter products has been expanded to include interactive online and mobile technologies. The medical training products are based on a collection of hand-painted anatomy illustrations by Dr. Frank Netter. The newly launched digital tools are projected to aid students and clinicians in learning and reviewing concepts in basic sciences and clinical medicine.
The Netter products are claimed to offer a number of avenues for medical students to self-direct their learning outside of the clinical and classroom environment. These include Netter's 3D Interactive Anatomy, powered by Cyber-Anatomy, which seeks to bring the human body to life. The aim is to give students and clinicians a real-time interactive model of human anatomy using advanced gaming technology. The original Netter art is digitised and modeled to simulate a realistic environment for virtual dissection and exploration of human anatomy, allowing users to rotate virtual bodies, peel apart individual structures and have precise control over their view.
Netter's iPhone apps reportedly allow students and clinicians access to the bestselling references from an iPhone or iPod touch. The apps include Netter's Atlas of Human Anatomy; Netter's Anatomy Flash Cards; Netter's Concise Radiologic Anatomy; Netter's Musculoskeletal Flash Cards; Netter's Neuroscience Flash Cards; Netter's Advanced Head and Neck Flash Cards; Netter's Histology Flash Cards; and Netter's Surgical Anatomy Review.
Best-selling Netter books, including The Atlas of Human Anatomy, The Netter Collection of Medical Illustrations, Netter's Clinical Anatomy, Netter's Orthopaedic Clinical Examination: An Evidence-Based Approach, and Netter's Cardiology, are scheduled to be available on the Kindle beginning in 2011.
Even with the adoption of electronic and digital tools, students and clinicians still find paper resources valuable, according to the company. Students can continue their self-directed learning with products from the Netter line including Netter's Surgical Anatomy Review P.R.N., by Robert B. Trelease; The Netter Anatomy Coloring Book, by Dr. John T. Hansen; Netter's Clinical Anatomy by Dr. John T. Hansen; and Netter's Correlative Imaging Series, which will launch in late 2010 with the first volume: Musculoskeletal Anatomy.
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