Dr Patricia Eadie, a consultant plastic surgeon at St James Hospital, said she was a bit apprehensive when making her first incision on a corpse as a medical student at University College Cork. She went on to spend two years of her training practising on that cadaver. Even when she went on a course in London earlier this month, cadavers were used for live demonstrations of surgery techniques. Its still important to have access to cadavers - you can see and feel for yourself whether the nerve underneath a certain muscle is the same as it is on the screen, Eadie said.
Posted on: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 12:46:26 +0000
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