ROWENA, A MORE THAN REALISTIC SURGERY SIMULATOR

Realistic Operative Workstation for Educating Neurosurgical Apprentices

What we all should know is that “Medicine is the science or practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness.” It means that practice is the key to success, as we have learned from 3D printing anatomical education and Planmeca Promodel.

Richard Ashpole, a consultant neurosurgeon at the Queen’s Medical Centre, in Nottingham, used his own daughter Rowena’s head, to make his teaching simulator. Basing his design on her skull size and shape for a life-like model.