The JMC summer computer fellowship program gives interested medical students the chance to learn about information design and software development while producing a useful study aid for their peers. In the past the program has helped faculty migrate course materials to an electronic format for access via Pulse, produced student self-assessment materials, and developed computer-based learning study aids for JMC courses.

This year's students and participating faculty were: Josh Siglin (working with Drs. Madhu Kalia, Hector Lopez and Anthony Frisby), and Michael Trotter and Swathi Vijayaraghavan (working with Dr. Dick Schmidt).

A description of each of their projects is below.

Project: The Visible Human Dissector Lessons
Josh Siglin & Dr. Hector Lopez

Abstract: A thorough understanding of anatomy is a core skill in many medical and allied health professions fields. Traditionally gross anatomy has been taught on cadavers, enabling visual identification and motor skills. However in the clinical setting, caregivers encounter very different tools for observing the human body, namely MRI and CT images. It is often very difficult to bridge the diagnostic imaging tools to the knowledge built in an anatomy course. Working with Dr. Hector Lopez (Anatomy, Pathology & Cell Biology) and Sean Dyer (AISR's Education Services division) Josh developed three lessons that we hope will help bridge this difference. Full project description.

Project: A Visual Guide to Human Dissection
Michael Trotter, Swathi Vijayaraghavan & Dr. Richard Schmidt