"M.D." BY FILM
TRAINING MEDICAL STUDENTS. Tho training of medical students is the latest development of the kinoma. Various experiments are being tried in nil countries, one of tho latest being, a remarkable film lesson in anatomy at tho Royal College of Surgeons last week. A skeleton was taken to pieces on the screen, the importance of the various parts demonstrated, end it was then re-' constructed—the effect being much stronger than if these facts had been merely gathered from a text-book. , In the United States operations by important surgeons are being recorded by kiuema photographers, and they will thou be used through tho country in all the medical colleges for practical instruction. Tho life of a film may be short, but if it is given only ten years, this means that during that time thousands of students will be aide to benefit by first-hand knowledge instead of t'v relatively small number who can bo present in a theatre during the r.cturJ operation. Not only students in the country where the operation was performed, but others .all over tho world will bo able to benefit by one man's skill. ~sA special lens has been invented which shws the details moro clearly than in an onv-.arv film. ' ' In Germany ilip same movement is inking place. A "film library of mctlieine'.' has been formed in Berlin for the nso of German medical schools. Films are to be taken of nil important oueralions. A special censorship has been arranged and permission must bo received before these films can he shown—to provent thoir boin? exhibited for "amusement" to a morbidly minded audience. .Here it was found that tho noise of the camera distracted tho surgeon, so it was decided to tako the film from another room through a hole in a partition wall. Once the kinema is applied to medicine, there is no end to its possibilities. Not only will.the future "11.D." profit greatly by it. but also' the public can receive from the film useful lessons on cenoral matters of cleanliness • and health. .
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 274, 15 August 1919, Page 8
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340"M.D." BY FILM Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 274, 15 August 1919, Page 8
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