The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has announced the launch of a new collaboration to offer online 3D anatomy courses to students worldwide. The courses have been developed in collaboration with STM publisher Elsevier and Sharecare Reality Lab, a digital health company that provides visual solutions for healthcare.
Penn's anatomy faculty developed the course content using images from Elsevier's benchmark Netter Atlas of Human Anatomy, Gray's Anatomy for Students, Larson's Human Embryology and Sharecare Reality Lab's sophisticated digital 3D-anatomic simulations.
The idea for Penn's paid course offerings began three years ago when Penn was among other medical schools that provided free courses known as MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses). One of Penn's offerings was an anatomy course on the upper limb called 'Going out on a Limb,' which attracted more than 39,000 students. Feedback from the enrollees requested similar courses on the other areas of human anatomy.
Two courses will be offered in October 2016: The Thorax, with nine hours of lecture, will launch on Oct. 11, 2016, and will cost $115; and The Embryology of the Heart and Lung, with five hours of lecture, will launch on Oct.18, 2016 and will cost $55. Each course will be open for eight weeks. Upon completion of each course, students will be eligible to receive a certificate of completion from the Perelman School of Medicine. Courses on the abdomen, pelvis, back, extremities, and brain will be available in 2017.
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