Is it true that there are dissection opportunities organised by the surgical society?

**radioblob** · 03-04-2011, 03:36 AM

thanks

**The Fantastic Dr. Fox** · 05-04-2011, 12:54 AM

I wish I could claim that was true. But I cant.

**Ryan118120** · 12-04-2011, 08:21 PM

Originally Posted by radioblob

thanks

Yes they do.
There's a surgeon attached to peninsula in Truro who will teach dissection. Also you can go to Bristol in the summer to do dissection.
Also the surgical society arranges a lot of extra lectures and stuff ... they seem to be very active.

**The Fantastic Dr. Fox** · 12-04-2011, 08:32 PM

There is a pathologist in truro that will let you watch post mortems. They are organised by the students themselves, not by the society.

**Yixian** · 12-04-2011, 10:18 PM

We talking about Rob Marshall? Yeah, he takes groups of students I believe, not sure how much hands on they actually get though.

That said I do agree that dissection doesn't seem hugely useful. Maybe if it helps some people memorise anatomy but I have done dissections at Nottingham and obviously seen a lot of surgery and a cadaver is just nothing like a living human body at all.

**Ryan118120** · 12-04-2011, 10:29 PM

Oh that's good to know!!!

**Ryan118120** · 12-04-2011, 10:33 PM

Originally Posted by Yixian

We talking about Rob Marshall? Yeah, he takes groups of students I believe, not sure how much hands on they actually get though.

That said I do agree that dissection doesn't seem hugely useful. Maybe if it helps some people memorise anatomy but I have done dissections at Nottingham and obviously seen a lot of surgery and a cadaver is just nothing like a living human body at all.

How come you have done dissection at Nottingham??

**Yixian** · 13-04-2011, 12:43 AM

Originally Posted by Ryan118120

How come you have done dissection at Nottingham??

My dad is a lecturer there, he hooked me up.

**Ryan118120** · 13-04-2011, 12:50 AM

Originally Posted by Yixian

My dad is a lecturer there, he hooked me up.

Oh awesome, using connexions!
So you don't actually think it's any more useful then?

**Yixian** · 17-04-2011, 01:47 PM

Originally Posted by Ryan118120

Oh awesome, using connexions!
So you don't actually think it's any more useful then?

Yeah not really, I really didn't learn a lot from it, if you are die hard surgeon and can only learn visually but keep in mind that a cadaver is very different from a living body then perhaps it will help you memorise your anatomy but that's it really.

It is incredibly expensive to run a dissection service and so Peninsula never bothered to set one up, in fact Nottingham are considering dropping theirs.