MEDICAL MASTER CLASSES
Twenty-four Year 9 students attended a series of Medical Master classes at the Iceni Centre at Colchester Hospital. The objective of the classes was to open their eyes to the opportunities of a variety of careers in health care and to explain the routes and requirements for those careers. The students experienced what it might be like for a surgeon with what happens in an operating theatre, the responsibilities of the staff and the number of personnel involved in making an operation a success for the patient. Areas covered were anesthetics, surgeons, theatre support workers, diagnostic radiographers and recovery nurses. They were taught how to suture, introduced to the equipment used by orthopedic surgeons, how to use sonographic equipment, how to wash their hands and how to put on the gowns, gloves and masks ready to carry out surgery.
The final session introduced the students to a wider variety of career opportunities in the NHS and finally, they were awarded certificates for their attendance by Dame Clare Marx, Chair of the General Medical Council.