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Loop Abroad: Prosthetic Design: Biomedical Engineering in Vet & Human Medicine (Directory Program)

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  • Locations: Online/Virtual, no specified country
  • Program Terms: Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter
  • Homepage: Click to visit
  • Program Sponsor: Loop Abroad 
Program Description:
 
 
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Prosthetic Design: Biomedical Engineering in Vet & Human Medicine
Join our One Health prosthetics course to learn how to use engineering principles and design processes to solve health problems for humans and animals alike! Refine your creativity, critical thinking, and complex problem-solving skills as you develop prosthetic technologies that are so essential to restoring normal anatomical function and quality of life.

You will start by studying the foundations of bioengineering, biomechanics, and joint loading. Then apply these principles to understand human and animal prosthetics. Learn directly from the vets, engineers, and doctors who design and build prosthetics every day in their practice – whether it’s a prosthetic leg for an elephant, a 3-D printed beak for a toucan, a wheelchair for a paraplegic dog, or the many prosthetics used by human amputees.

To conclude the course, you’ll design and build a prosthesis of your own for one of our dog cases at the Elephant Nature Park in Thailand where unfortunately many rescued dogs have one or more broken legs having been hit by trucks in jungle villages.

In this course, we are striving together to improve the lives of animal patients at our partner organizations and to provide an outstanding learning opportunity for students and professionals interested in the intersections of technology and human and animal medicine.
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Program Highlights
 
  • Learn from prosthetics specialists around the world, including surgeons who design new beaks for toucans and veterinarians who design elephant leg prosthetics 
  • Design, build, and implement a wheelchair for one of the paraplegic dog cases rescued by Elephant Nature Park in Thailand
  • Study cutting-edge projects at the intersection of technology and medicine from the One Health perspective
  • Earn a certificate from Loop Abroad in Prosthetic Design: Biomedical Engineering Applications in Veterinary and Human Medicine
  • One lucky member of this course will get a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to visit Thailand with @jungle_doctor to see the prosthetics hospital, meet the elephants, learn from the vets, and volunteer at Elephant Nature Park (international flight not included – conditions apply)
Our website contains all the information you need to get started on your study abroad adventure, including information about
program itineraries, pricing, financial aid and fundraising, college credit, and more!
 
 
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