Lab Notes

We’re back with another episode of Hands-On Lab, Anatomy Warehouse’s video series where we explore and assess the tools shaping the future of medical education. This month, we explored one of the most innovative simulators on the market: Nasco’s Alex GenAI Pro Patient Communicator Simulator.  Alex GenAI is more than just a manikin. It’s a comprehensive patient simulator powered by artificial intelligence, designed to create realistic, two-way communication between t …

Simulation is a powerful educational technique, and its impact is even more significant when students are equipped with the right tools. Physical and virtual models support effective training sessions for practically any subject. Just as using a digital guitar simulator is more helpful than strumming an air guitar, using manikins for training improves learning outcomes significantly more than imagined scenarios and textbooks alone. This guide explains how to teach health sciences with a manikin …

Anatomy Warehouse, a leading distributor of anatomical education tools, today announced the appointment of Liz Huff as Chief Executive Officer. Huff, who joined the company in 2008 as a Customer Support Specialist and most recently served as Chief Operating Officer, steps into the role after 16 years of helping build the company from the inside out. Under Huff’s leadership, Anatomy Warehouse has grown from a scrappy two-person startup into a streamlined, tech-driven organization supporting …

Anatomy Warehouse, a leading supplier of anatomical education tools, today announced an exclusive U.S. partnership with Erler-Zimmer to introduce the groundbreaking 3D Anatomy Series, a line of advanced 3D-printed anatomical models, into the American educational market. A Smarter, More Ethical Path to Learning “Plastinates filled a gap when they were introduced—but if 3D printing technology existed at the time, there would've been no reason to invent plastinates in the first place,&r …

Healthcare classrooms look very different today than they did twenty years ago. Chalk-dust lectures and “watch one, do one” apprenticeships are giving way to simulation training in healthcare – lifelike scenarios in which students and professionals test their hands-on knowledge and learn from honest mistakes long before a real patient is at risk. When a manikin’s pulse drops after a delayed epinephrine dose, the lesson is unforgettable; when a virtual hip bleeds because a …