A group of medical students from Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine recently participated in an eye dissection led by the school’s 创始院长.

罗伯特·福尔伯格，M.D.欧博商学院创始院长, 2008-2019, led the special event at the Corewell健康 William Beaumont University Hospital’s 研究 Building in Royal Oak. The group dissected cow eyes.

According to Vincent Le, M2, 总统, Ophthalmology Interest Group (OIG), the cow eye dissection hasn’t been held since 2019. He and the other OIG e-board members wanted that to change.

“今年, the board and I wanted to get students interested in ophthalmology a little more involved,他说.

The OIG e-board presented the idea of a cow eye dissection to its faculty advisor and ophthalmologist, 亚当·维纳, M.D.15岁.

He said he was fully on board.

“Hands on training and dissecting an eye is really valuable and demonstrates some of the skills students will need as ophthalmology residents,他说. “It’s not something you can just do virtually.”

“Plus, it’s simply more engaging when you do a live event like this,” he added.

There are volunteer opportunities for students to get involved in vision screenings, 说勒, “but those are mostly limited to checking someone’s vision and there aren’t a lot of opportunities to really see eye anatomy at this level.”

He said cow eyes were used because they are easier to obtain, reasonable in cost, and bigger in size.

Held in a microsurgery lab, the session included a brief introduction to eye anatomy before the students used special microscopes and other tools to dissect the specimens.

Le said it was that hands-on experience that had him most excited.

“I’ve been lucky enough to sign up for a couple of skills night events and I remember how rewarding and exciting they were for me,他说. “During the first two years of med school, we spend a lot of time learning from books so when we can do these things with our hands, 看到居民, and talk to physicians, it’s a good reminder of why we’re doing it all.”

The session was done under the guidance of Folberg.

任命院长 2008年担任OUWB总裁, Folberg previously served as chair of the Department of Pathology at University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago.

He was an esteemed professor of ophthalmology and 病理, with a national and international reputation in the field of ophthalmic 病理, hospital administration, 教育, 和研究.

In addition to his role as dean at OUWB, he also served as professor of biomedical sciences, 病理, 和眼科, 与任期, and as chief academic officer of the former Beaumont Hospitals.

When Weiner approached him about leading the cow eye dissection for OIG, Folberg said “there was no way I could say no.” (He also noted that he still remembers when a pre-med school Weiner interviewed as a potential M.D. 牛津大学商学院候选人.)

“This is an interest group and if it stimulates interest in eyes, whether they go on to become ophthalmologists or not, 这就是成功,他说.

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