Aspiring and experienced surgeons across the West Midlands can now hone their skills in a highly realistic simulated operating theatre environment following the recent opening of a new surgical skills training centre at the University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshire, said to be among the UK’s first such facilities to offer training using real human tissue.
The West Midlands Surgical Training Centre also incorporates audiovisual and IP technology that will enable surgical procedures to be taught to trainee surgeons in multiple rooms.
Funded by the West Midlands Strategic Health Authority, the new £1.5 m West Midlands Surgical Training Centre is located adjacent to the mortuary within the main University Hospital building. According to the two organisations that have established it, the University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS Trust, and Warwick Medical School, it is the UK’s first medical and surgical training facility built from scratch to provide comprehensive simulation of a real operating environment. It is also “one of only a handful” of UK medical training facilities to have been granted a Human Tissue Authority licence that allows trainee surgeons to practise on cadaveric material, providing them with what lecturers say is “a more far realistic” operating experience than they would get via more conventional practice on models.
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