Live Surgery: Essential Surgical Education or Putting Patients at Risk?
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Ben Challacombe; Sarah Wheatstone
- Source
- The Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 92:224-225
- Subject
- medicine.medical_specialty
Telemedicine
business.industry
education
Invasive surgery
medicine
The Internet
General Medicine
Surgical education
Surgical procedures
business
humanities
Surgery
- Language
- ISSN
- 1478-7075
1473-6357
Surgical and anatomical demonstrations have been fundamental to medical education since the times of John Hunter and William Cheselden, when groups of students and junior surgeons learnt by observing the masters of their time. With the advent of minimally invasive surgery it has become possible to obtain as good a view of an individual procedure as the primary surgeon him or herself. With technological advances in telemedicine and the increasing bandwidth offered by internet links, surgical procedures can be easily observed remotely in high quality with no concern for distance.