Medical students 'raised on screens lack skills for surgery'
Leading surgeon says lack of hobbies and creativity in schools has affected children’s practical abilities
Matthew Weaver
Tue 30 Oct 2018 06.50 EDT
Last modified on Tue 30 Oct 2018 14.25 EDT
Prof Roger Kneebone said that by spending time online children were missing out on practical skills acquired from hobbies such as cooking.
New medical students have spent so much time on screens that they lack vital practical skills necessary to conduct life-saving operations, a leading surgeon has warned.
Roger Kneebone, professor of surgical education at Imperial College London, said that a decline in hands-on creative subjects at school and practical hobbies at home means that students often do not have a basic understanding of the physical world.
Backing a campaign by educational thinktank the Edge Foundation to encourage more creative subjects in the national curriculum, Kneebone said spending hours engaged in virtual worlds was no substitute for experience in the real world.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/oct/30/medical-students-raised-on-screens-lack-skills-for-surgery
