Surgeons develop app to practise surgery

What we wanted to do is we wanted to take surgical education on a mobile device to another level and the display it in is very interactive and visually stimulating way so that people can get real learning benefit from it.

We felt that if there was an app where people can rehearse and train prior to getting to the operating room but the time they actually spent in the operating room once they get there is much more focused and it gives much better quality training.

Available for free, the doctors’ app can be downloaded on the range of devices from anywhere across the world and has been downloaded over eight thousand times in less than six months worldwide.

This app is quite useful for trainee surgeons. This year before my final exams I used the app to rehearse various surgical procedures and I got good feedback about my practical knowledge of surgery from the examines.

The feedback was very good from this app.

The operating theater will always be a daunting place for patients but this app might be a step forward in a line their fears as well as giving surgeons valuable practice before doing the real thing.

Parul Agrawal, BBC News.

Source: bbc.co.uk