Human Anatomy and Computing. How can a symbiotic relationship be established?

3 min readAug 8, 2020

Innovation is borne not by doing new things, but by looking for ways to do old things better. Scientists with a thirst for innovation have across various epochs found ways of introducing other areas of study into their field in order to improve already existent systems and processes or to probe further for entirely new ones.

Take for example the Dutch business man, Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek, who is known as the father of modern microbiology. Antonie was a draper by profession who wanted to see the quality of his threads in more details. He invented the microscopes for the purpose of viewing his threads better but also probed into the field of biology. Thus, microbiology was borne.

The study of Human anatomy is defined in simple terms as a quest to understand the structural make up of the human body in parts and as a whole. This knowledge, once acquired can be applied (most commonly) to Medical Science and Research.

Computer Science is the study of the structure of the software of dummy humans i’d say and it’s thinking process.

Innovation is highly steeped in the idea of “Solving real life problems with existing knowledge”. These problems don’t have to be mighty as anything born big can only be a monster, these problems can be as little as wanting to ensure you are getting quality threads as a draper.

Below, I have compiled a list of jobs that have been birthed or can be birthed as a result of merging Computer Science and Human Anatomy.

Career options

Anatomy Lab Specialist — Assist and teach undergraduates during prosection classes i.e classes about the human body.
Teaching
Entrepreneurship —
Enhancing Anatomy Education online (See Visible Body) as an anatomy lecturer or Secondary school biology teacher, one can create online course content for students.

4. Entrepreneurship : As an entrepreneur, one could build softwares for university and secondary school teachers to use to teach A level anatomy and undergraduate anatomy interactively, very useful in this COVID Period and later. Also useful because I recall during my undergraduate studies, we sometimes didn’t have access to cadaveric specimens for many reasons so this can serve as temporary alternatives.

5. Bioinformatics

One can go for further studies in bioinformatics and manage hospital data and other database affairs in health care (See Open MRS ). This can be achieved by generally volunteering for already existing organisations, getting jobs with such organizations or starting one .

6. Pharmaceutical technology

Go for further studies in Pharmatech i.e improving pharmaceutical research with existing technology. (See Pfizer ).

7. Gene Therapy/Genetic Engineering

Go fully into genetic science and study how software engineering can make things better.

or help manage software aspect of a genetic company. ( See 54 gene a company in Nigeria).

8. Medical Rehabilitation Therapists/Physiotherapy

9. Inventory Manager

10. Cybersecurity Engineer

11. Statistical Geneticist

12. Research Scientist

13. Biobanking/Biorepositories

14. Genomic Studies (See 54 gene)