The Hall became a surgical theatre and laboratory for our students to practise medicine!
Operating Theatre Live visited school and taught students about surgery and anatomy. This exciting taster day brought science to life in the context of one of the most demanding professions in the world – Medical Surgery.
Students performed hands-on dissections and surgery-based activities, working alongside a medical anatomist to observe the dissection of a real gastrointestinal track and comparing real organs with those from schematic diagrams. They used surgical techniques to carry out a real heart transplant and a full dissection of a brain.
The organs used were from animals and were chosen to be structurally similar to corresponding human organs so that the experience was as close as possible to that of a practising surgeon.
Here’s our video of the event:
More pictures below – click to enlarge.
Service users queueing patiently for their appointments.
Patients etherised upon a table.
Let operations commence!
Tools of the trade.
