This type of teaching moment is the main reason for this museum’s collection of organs donated by patients, so rookie health-care workers can better understand how the body is affected by diseases and other impairments.Kong positions this specimen to mimic the permanent 90-degree angle this patient lived with for 50+ years as a result of a Tuberculosis infection of his spine . Luckily, the spinal cord was not compressed so he did not have any pain.
The museum is almost unique. In Canada, there are about five universities with a collection of organs used for teaching, but only two — this UBC facility and another at McGill in Montreal — are open to the public for tours. A few other countries, such as Australia and England, also have similar learning centres, said Dr. Gang Wang, director the UBC museum, which is on the Vancouver General Hospital campus.
Mathew Fu, a Grade 12 student at Eric Hamber Secondary, first visited the museum two years ago and now volunteers there because he plans to study science at university. He believes anyone can learn important lessons from the organs, such as witnessing how healthy pink lungs can be turned black by smoking cigarettes and other substances.Article content
“It gives a bit more context. Some of them are visual learners and patients might present with certain signs and symptoms, and it can be difficult for them to absorb that knowledge from a textbook,” Tang said. “This is just an another way for them to see what’s actually happening in terms of the pathophysiology.”
One of Wang’s favourite exhibits is an enormous tapeworm that was removed from a person and preserved in a meticulous coil inside its Plexiglas case. From its thick end on the outside of the circle to its thin tail on the inside, the worm would be a couple of metres long when unfurled.
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