The Master of Science in Modern Human Anatomy (MSMHA) at
the University of Colorado Denver is an innovative and unique program that brings
together the strengths of an established anatomy and developmental biology
curriculum with the foundations of technology in the Visible Human Project. It
is an evolving vision with the flexibility to generate a bridge between
rigorous traditional training in anatomy and new technical demands of clinical
medicine in the 21st Century.
The Master of Science in Modern Human Anatomy provides
graduate level training and teaching experience in the physical and virtual
anatomical sciences through human cadaver dissection, neuroanatomy, histology
and embryology; all addressed from a modern perspective stressing quantitative
imaging, modeling, informatics and clinical applications. The curriculum is translational in
integrating computer and engineering technologies into the domains of anatomy
and developmental biology through a project oriented curriculum.
Through its project emphasis, the Master of Science in
Modern Human Anatomy is designed to engage students in the intellectually
creative processes necessary to develop applications that link virtual
technology to human biological structure.
The technical aspect of the curriculum is structured to develop and
refine skills in the following:
Project design and effective presentation and proposal development
Advanced image-processing for rendition of photographic, radiologic and microscopic images, the latter including confocal
and electron microscopic data sets
Large scale mosaic imaging
Segmentation and 3-D computer surface and solid modeling
3-D animation
Applied engineering in construction of simulators or other devices based on modeling, finite element constructs and
haptics that provide sensory feedback in virtual space