Being the first university in the Pacific to have a 3D technology called the Anatomage Table, president of the Divine Word University Fr Philip Gibbs says he is proud that his students now have the privilege to have such technology to work with.
He said normally at a medical school, they use corpses most especially of pigs where they learn to operate on them but at some stage they have to start working on human bodies.
Fr Gibbs said that it is very difficult to find human bodies to work with especially in PNG because families don’t like to donate the bodies of their loved ones nor their relatives.
With this new technology it makes teaching and learning a lot easier and a lot less messy.
“It’s the size of a human person and more detailed for the students to work with by using the digital tools to actually operate on the digital person.”
“It is a 3D version of a person and you can use it to go right inside a person’s body at the different layers whether it is the muscle structure, the bones or the internal organs to basically operate on a person digitally,” Fr Gibbs said.
Divine Word University has taken in roughly the same number of students for this year as well.
DWU president Fr Philip Gibbs says, people seem to be struggling to find school fees, possibly because of the down turn of the economy due to COVID and a good number of them do not have the financial support/funds to register.
He said regardless of this, a total of 1800 students have registered with the university for this year with over 400 first year students receiving their new laptops to assist with coursework over the four years of their studies.