Canine Palpation Training

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In today’s veterinary classrooms, students lack training on recognizing abdominal abnormalities in canines. Veterinary students face this problem because proper training devices are not available. Rather, only devices that resemble human abdomens are available. Additionally, the human abdomens are lying down, whereas animals would be standing up during an examination. To help train veterinary students on a device that resembles a canine abdomen, a new technology at Worcester Polytechnic institute (WPI) has been developed called the Canine Palpation Device. This new technology will be the first to enter the veterinary classroom that will allow student to feel for and recognize stomach abnormalities in addition to showing what a canine abdomen should feel like when anatomically correct. The Canine Palpation Device will be implemented into the Tufts University Veterinary School at first, but has potential to be marketed to veterinary supply companies for global distribution. Key Features First haptically accurate training device to allow veterinary students to learn canine abdominal palpation techniques.