PIROGOV Interactive touchtable

The Pirogov Table and Digital Atlas have been used by the Operative Surgery and Topographic Anatomy Department of the Sechenov University for students in all specialties for about two years. The complex has proved its effectiveness and practicality, which are needed and highly important in the shortage of anatomic materials. The table is especially useful for teaching foreign students as it is easier and more effective to explain the case by pointing out things on a virtual anatomic model than to simply explain.

Today we have determined the following capabilities of our educational equipment to solve tasks at our department:
• Check of initial knowledge of normal and topographic anatomy by hospital physicians, in the scope required for further functional training.
• Replenishment of missing knowledge of normal and topographic anatomy that has been found during previous testing, both by team/pair and individual work of hospital physicians.
• Regular use as practical and demonstration equipment in scheduled studies of specific forensic medicine topics.

Clinical anatomy as other clinical disciplines requires the synergic perception of specific human body parts, including different organs that interact all together, but not separately in the live organism when they appear, develop, and function. Such perception of the material to be studied is provided by the Pirogov 3D Anatomy Atlas.

The Pirogov Interactive Table enables the detailed use of anatomic landmarks for an abundance of anatomic structures, both in male and female body models. We wish teachers who have not started using this anatomy table to discover all its capabilities and to use it not only in the Normal Anatomy discipline but also in the Topographic and Pathologic Anatomy discipline, operative surgery, and forensic examinations.

The use of the Pirogov Interactive Touchtable allows you to explain clearly to students the syntopy of internals in 3D mode, compare with CT and MRI slices, and demonstrate clearly the strengths and weaknesses of many surgical approaches. In addition, while solving independently clinical and anatomic tasks by creating scenes, students will be able to understand faster, explain, and imagine the development of many pathological symptoms and syndromes.

The program enrichment with interesting solutions that open up new opportunities, such as comparison of anatomic structures along with the review of ultrasound investigation, CT, and MRI data allows forming the clinical thinking and show the practical use of acquired knowledge of topographic anatomy together with practical skills in various clinical disciplines.

The Pirogov Table allows seeing the human body from a completely different perspective — from the inside. In addition to the macroscopic structure, we can also show the microscopic structure of organs.