Some cool, new technology for veterinary students has made its way to Hampton Roads.
Students in the veterinary technology program at Tidewater Community College now have a new innovative tool to help them learn how to do surgery on animals under anesthesia.
This is Diesel! He looks like a real dog, but it’s a simulator that mimics breathing and responds to the surgery in real-time.
Diesel, TCC’s new anesthesia immersive simulator
Kelsey Jones/Reporter TCC instructors say this new technology is unique to future veterinarians because this access has not always existed for them. However, medical training programs have used patient simulators for decades. Military leaders even use canine simulators like Diesel to train.
For students, this allows them to learn outside of a classroom and put themselves in an operating room.
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