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SURGERY SIMULATOR

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Who is it for?

The SURGERY SIMULATOR is the next generation of live surgical experience for students aged 14-19, this event straddles GCSE & A Level concepts and is designed to expose students to the exciting career prospects in medicine and other allied healthcare professions. Transform your event venue into an operating theatre for the day and get your students hands on dissecting real organs, attempting surgical procedures all while learning core concepts found in the GCSE & A Level specifications.

How long does it take?

There is 4 hours of content delivered around your normal breaks and lunch time. Events typically begin at 0900 and end at 1400.

ANAESTHETICS

  • Preparing a patient for surgery, infection control

  • Preparing anaesthetics, making solutions, calculating masses and volumes. Administering drugs quantities

  • Using patient data

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BRAIN SURGERY

  • ​Brain anatomy and structure

  • Homeostasis and core body parameters 

  • Full brain dissection

  • The reflex arc

  • Full spinal cord dissection

  • Optic nerve examination

  • Eye dissection, lens, retina and humorous

  • Traumatic brain injury

CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY

  • The thyroid & thyroxine

  • The respiratory system

  • Ventilation & gas exchange 

  • Tracheal dissection

  • Lung dissection

  • Effect of smoking & vaping and

  • Dissection of the heart

  • The hear transplant

  • Valves and chambers

  • Aorta dissection

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GASTRIC SURGERY

  • Abdominal examination​

  • Stomach dissection

  • Liver & gall bladder examination

  • Liver disease & pancreatitis

  • The small intestine

  • The large intestine

  • Crohn's & IBS

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EVENT SPECIFIC INFORMATION

For up to 60 student participants

For this event to take place at your school, college, sixth form or university we require the following:

Site access from 0730 to unload and set up

A ground floor large gym or hall space with a hard floor, a classroom is not sufficient, due to the flight cases they will not fit in lift

A projector or large screen capable of receiving a HDMI input

60 seats and 15 tables

A power socket

Access to a sink area (this can be in another room)

A supervising staff member at all times

A nominated first aider

Your event with us includes:

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  • DBS checked qualified human anatomist Sam Piri QTS

  • Sam's DBS technician to support the event delivery

  • Pop up simulated operating theatre installation

  • Screens & Audiovisual equipment

  • All porcine dissection specimens, Ovine available by request

  • All dissection equipment

  • Surgical gowns, caps and masks for students

  • Printed colour learning aids

  • Printed colour certificate of participation 

  • 50 Question online A Level exam to examine learning post event and check progress

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You will need to:

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  • Choose 60 students to participate in the full day

  • Ensure that all 60 students are given the pre-event briefing (available from the portal)

  • Arrange for your site team to set the chairs and tables up as per the floor plan the evening before the event

  • Ensure that the event space is suitable and meets the guidance: a large flat gym or hall, no carpet, has a screen with a HDMI input, is step free and must be ground level

  • Arrange for a skip or bin to be made available for all event waste

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Cost & funding 

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  • Event price £2200 for 60 students

  • Grant funding opportunities available

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To book this event there is a £400 supplement to cover the AV install and additional consumables such as clinical scrubs and PPE used as part of this event. Please speak to your Partnership Manager to pay this by invoice or use the card payment facility in the portal when prompted. 

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WHAT DO TEACHERS SAY?

Ralph Allen School hosted an event in July 2025, they received a funding grant of £400 and made up the rest via a £30 student contribution. All 60 places we're signed up quickly and they have rebooked an event next year. Hear what Mr McCarthy the organiser had to say...

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