The increase has resulted from more focused investment strategies and favorable market conditions. These and other developments are all part of our progress. They've allowed us not only to deliver quality medical and health sciences education, but also expand our efforts to better serve the community, the state and the nation. Harvey helps students learn medicine by simulating the bedside findings of a normal heart along with findings of 26 cardiac diseases such as hypertension, mitral valve prolapse and cardiomyopathy. As a disease is programmed, Harvey exhibits the appropriate symptoms.
Heart sounds, colors and breathing all change to mimic the disease.
Harvey was born out of technology. And while he's undeniably a valuable teaching tool, some observers of medical proactice are concerned that too much technology is used today. There's a risk of becoming technologically dependent. Harvey, however, was designed to help students become less dependent on technology - to become expert at bedside diagnosis without having to intrude on ill patients for study. Because in the end, medicine isn't about technology.