{"id":130846,"date":"2017-10-26T12:16:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T16:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&#038;p=130846"},"modified":"2017-10-26T12:35:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T16:35:26","slug":"val-learning-virtual-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2017\/10\/val-learning-virtual-way\/","title":{"rendered":"In the \u2018VAL\u2019 \u2013 Learning the Virtual Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the not so distant past, medical and dental students would learn minimal amounts of radiology and medical imaging along with their gross anatomy experience with cadavers. But now UConn Health\u2019s Virtual Anatomy Lab, better known as the \u201cVAL,\u201d greatly expands that experience. It allows first- and second-year medical and dental students to solidify their learning of anatomy along with introducing them to important new imaging technology they\u2019ll be using throughout their careers. Step into the lab to observe first-hand how the students \u2013 and ultimately their patients &#8211; benefit from what the VAL has to offer.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"UConn Health&#039;s Virtual Anatomy Lab (VAL)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y7pGramjMwc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UConn Health\u2019s Virtual Anatomy Lab, the \u201cVAL,\u201d allows medical and dental students to solidify their learning of anatomy along with introducing them to new imaging technology. Step into the lab to observe first-hand how the students \u2013 and ultimately their patients &#8211; benefit from what the VAL has to offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":130850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1868],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1867],"class_list":["post-130846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meds"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 01:49:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/130850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130846"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=130846"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=130846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}