[toomuchtodo]

I wonder if there's a market in medical education for precise models of different body parts with one-click ordering from model->3D production->shipping to your education facility. This is distinct from the efforts of facilities who are using 3D manufacturing to create patient models on site for surgery planning.

[qubex]

There most definitely is. My significant other (who is training as an equine veterinarian) is frequently in contact with “synthetic cadavers” made by http://syndaver.com

[crooked-v]

This seems like it's just adding the extra step of 3D printing to anatomical models that are already made en masse.

[roywiggins]

Why 3D print if it's just going to be for education, not individualized patient models?

[toomuchtodo]

Ya know, I suppose in an ideal world you drive down the cost of on site manufacturing so you could spit out any model you wanted in the classroom. Want a healthy kidney? Boom, done. Want an organ that has a specific issue for a particular ailment being studied? Out it comes.