University of Las Veags (UNLV) will join a few other schools across the nation in using virtual anatomy tables in teaching programs to examine a patient without destroying vital organs.

The university's vice dean for academic affairs and education, Ellen Cosgrove, MD, said in a statement the school's committment to teaching students in a way sets the school apart from other medical programs.

This new technology displays images of the body from different perspectives and angles, 2D cross-section and 3D rotation. A few touches here and there can demonstrate different parts of the bodya simple touch can light up the veins.

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