Dr Sarah Baillie a senior lecturer in veterinary education at the Royal Veterinary College won the ‘Most Innovative Teacher of the Year’ award at the Times Higher Education Awards in 2009 for her work with haptic simulators.
The Awards programme called Dr Baillie’s “Haptic Cow”:
“possibly the most significant innovation in veterinary education in the past 50 years.”
The Haptic Cow is a life-like simulator that trains veterinary students in internal bovine examinations, an innovative educational resource that mimics the feeling of real bovine anatomy.
The LIVE Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) provides links to other interesting veterinary medical haptic projects (including an equine colic simulator and a feline abdominal palpation simulator).
Feel free to browse the Intute: Veterinary Medicine collection of evaluated Web resources on veterinary anatomy - this collection includes some interactive educational resources, many outlining ‘traditional’ methods of teaching anatomy.
Barbara A./NH/USA says: November 13, 2009 @ 1:02 am
Sincere congratulations to Dr Sarah Baillie for her humane innovative teaching techniques. I look forward to widespread use of same here in the US and keep compassion as number one in veterinary science.