3D printing helps to improve medical education in Singapore

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU, Singapore) is using 3D printing to produce a novel range of anatomical models for medical education. Students at Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKC Medicine, Singapore), a joint venture between Nanyang Technological University (NTU, Singapore) and Imperial College London (UK), have started using 3D printed specimens to improve anatomy education. The 3D models are a product of collaboration between LKC Medicine and NTU, and are comprised of a range of materials that vary in hardness, flexibility and color to represent the properties of anatomical structures in a human body. This is the latest example...