On Friday Dave and I, along with several other folks, toured the University of Central Florida's new College of Medicine. It's several miles from the main campus - out in the middle of nowhere. But that won't last long. Soon there will be teaching hospitals of all types, residences and shopping centers.
This cutting edge med school was built from the ground up. It's the first medical school in history to offer full four year scholarships to an entire class.
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Here is a photo taken during our tour. Our guide is introducing us to her four friends, David, David, David and Harvey (back behind the glass.) They're all manikins, but very pricey ones. They get sick, sweat, throw up, pee, have heart attacks, etc. And they can be male or female by just changing a few parts. .jpg)
Later we went to the anatomy lab. Also cutting edge. The caption on the painting of the hands reads, "This is the place where death delights to help the living."
When Dave and I left this lecture we, along with many others, went directly to find literature on how to donate our bodies to this program.
Here is a little quiz:
How many books are in the UCF College of Medicine library?
Answer: Virtually none. Everything is done with technology. We held an ipad that told us about a beating heart, let us hear beating hearts and let us feel beating hearts.
It takes about three years to publish a text book. ipads can deliver the material almost immediately. And deliver it to all of our senses.
Never heard of the University of Central Florida? With around 60,000 students it's the second largest university in the country.
And still growing in ways that boggle the mind.
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