Medical Students Unzip New Surgery Lessons Medical student Melissa McPherson models the gown with zips to indicate where surgeons make incisions A surgical gown with zips that show where surgeons make cuts in the body for during operations could soon be helping to teach medical students. The gown would supplement the traditional plastic models of the human body in global use as teaching aids. It could also help in explaining operations to patients. The gown has nine zips showing where incisions are made for operations such as removal of the appendix and open heart surgery. Its silk material is more like human tissue than the plastic of the traditional models, scientists say. The universities of Ulster and Durham, where the idea was developed, say medical students will don the gown while fellow students learn about surgical incisions using the zips. Prof John McLachlan, associate dean at Durham University's School for Health, said: "Current anatomical teaching aids describe but they don't evoke. They take no account of emotional involvement or the feel of the body. "The way medical students distance themselves emotionally from the patient's body has long been seen as a desirable outcome of current modes of medical training." But the "desensitisation" could bring problems, he said. "The patient becomes 'the liver in bed four' rather than Mrs Smith. "We think we can use art to bring meaning back into medical teaching and we want to help students understand the significance of the body as well as its structure." The gown's development was funded by the Wellcome Trust as part of a project to explore teaching, learning and thinking about the body through a series of art works and artefacts. Source
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