The Apprentice Doctor - 'How to Stitch-up Wounds' Suturing Course

Whether your child is a high-schooler considering a medical career or a college-aged student currently studying medicine, you can help them greatly advance their real-world medical skills with The Apprentice Doctor 'How to Stitch-up Wounds' Suturing Course and Kit. This comprehensive course and kit was developed by a surgeon and lecturer, with contributions by a variety of other medical professionals.

Your student will use top-quality tools worthy of the profession to learn and then repeatedly practice the stitching and knot-tying techniques that all surgeons use in actual operations. What really sets this kit apart is the highly realistic, three-layered imitation skin that gives your student ample opportunities to practice each technique in a way never before possible!

The 18-piece suturing 'tool kit' contains:

• instructional CD-ROM with video clips, illustrations, and more
• realistic imitation skin for suturing practice
• scissors
• needle holder
• suturing material

Students may also download the course as an eBook, plus teacher/lecturer assessment tools.

The 13 projects straightforwardly teach your student the suturing techniques they'll need to perfect, while also educating them about suturing instruments, plus needles, thread, and other pertinent items. They'll work through a variety of case studies, and take a break to play Suture games that test what they've learned.

With this course and kit, your future doctor or nurse will learn how to:

• tie a variety of surgical knots with 6 projects
• tend to wounds like a professional
• avoid scarring by tying neat sutures
• work with a needle holder and tissue forceps
• line up 'wound margins'
• minimize wound infection
• prevent some of the most common complications of wounds
• remove sutures
• ...and everything else they need to begin suturing like a pro!

Your student can even sign up online for access to new projects by following the included instructions. Completion of the course averages about 42 to 56 hours (approx. a week of 6-to-8-hour days).

Ages 14 to adult (parential supervision advised for students under 18).