study compared the effectiveness of wet labs to the use of a virtual frog dissection program. In essence, you can keep rewinding a procedure until you’re good at it.” So why not in high school biology? It's effectiveĪ recent Ph.D.
says “A virtual environment is very forgiving, You can practice all you want you can fumble all you want you can kill a ‘patient’ repeatedly, learning from your mistakes. Alan Liu, Ph.D., a research scientist for virtual reality at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, Md. Nancy Harrison, a practicing pathologist in California asserts that cutting up preserved frogs bears little relation to cutting human flesh and is therefore of no educational value for aspiring doctors.Įven medical schools are embracing virtual training. Interestingly, many doctors are also opposed to dissection in schools. Proponents of traditional dissection often lose sight of the reason for dissecting in the first place-to learn anatomy and physiology, not to learn dissection skills. While that may be true for a small number of students, mounting evidence suggests that virtual dissection programs such as The Digital Frog are just as good, if not a better way to learn anatomy and physiology than tradtional dissections.
Many biology teachers believe that dissection is still the best way to learn biology. You'll miss the smell of formaldehyde A virtual dissection as good as, or better, than the real thing A virtual frog dissection so close to the real thing,
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