If you haven’t seen the “Very Postmortem: Mummies and Medicine” exhibition at the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco, you must go. Gurnick Academy of Medical Arts Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) students visited the exhibit on a Saturday in September, 2010 and had a blast! We were able to view the CT scans taken by scientists at Stanford Medical School, which were used to discover what is inside the mummified body of Irethorrou (the Fine Arts Museum’s mummy, which has been on loan since 1944).

Our LVN students had a chance to experience how modern scientific research can provide insight into the way ancient Egyptians lived. The students explored the power of modern technology in three-dimensional imaging of the mummies, accompanied by scientific explanations of the exhibited pieces.

GAMA students can have fun in and outside of classrooms in our LVN program. They get to explore, and experience, science and medicine not only during their regular coursework and attending clinical practice sessions, but also outside of our campus, during field trips such as this one. At Gurnick Academy, we incorporate worthwhile field trips, and educational outings, as part of the curriculum.