Surgery on toy animals lessens anxiety of veterinary students - 15.11.2011

TEDDY SURGERY

Training basic surgical techniques on toy animals before having to perform operations on living animals makes veterinary students much less anxious. At the same time, the use of laboratory animals is minimised. This is documented by a new PhD thesis from LIFE – Faculty of Life Sciences.

 

A surgical skills laboratory, also known as the 'teddy laboratory', strengthens learning and the teaching environment. The laboratory allows students to train basic surgical skills on toy animals designed to resemble and feel like real animals featuring, for example, organs, veins and arteries.

 

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