 The
IRC will also provide a missing link in the education of
Drexel graduate students, and orthopaedic fellows from Jefferson
and MCP Hahnemann. Currently, graduate students in the School
of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems have an
excellent exposure to the engineering principles and laboratory
techniques needed to do biomaterials design and analysis. The
missing link in the current program is connecting graduate students
to the actual clinic. The IRC will provide graduate students
the opportunity to observe retrieved components, and to measure
the stability of biomaterials after implantation into the
human body. They will also be able to visit the operating
room, talk with the surgeons, and observe orthopaedic surgeries.
The orthopaedic residents and fellows will come to Drexel's laboratories
and perform bioengineering research themselves, further rounding
out their medical training. |
