04/08/2026
🫀🐖 Real Learning. Real Anatomy. Real Skills. 🐖🫀
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Our students last night had the opportunity to participate in a hands-on pig lab dissection, giving them a firsthand look at how the heart and lungs actually function. This is where everything really starts to click.
Using real tissue, students were able to connect classroom knowledge to real anatomy. From identifying structures to seeing how the lungs expand and contract, to visualizing how the valves, ventricles, and atria of the heart function and how blood flows throughout the heart.
We even utilized a ventilator to demonstrate how the lungs breathe, giving students a powerful visual of airway management and respiratory mechanics in action.
Pig anatomy closely mirrors human anatomy, making this a highly valuable and realistic training experience for our future providers. Opportunities like this are what help build confident, capable clinicians.