Last summer, the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Chattanooga became the final medical school in the U.S. Plus, they’re super cheap.īut today, 3D printing, realistic mannequins, and virtual reality are transforming how surgeons learn. He said the tendons in chicken feet aren’t easy to get to, but once you find them, they feel a lot like human tendons.
Donald Bae, an orthopedic surgeon at Boston Children’s Hospital. “As recently as five to 10 years ago, we bought chicken feet from grocers in Chinatown markets and had our residents practice techniques of tendon repair by suturing chicken flexor tendons,” says Dr. In the past, surgeons practiced on animals and fruit: No one wants their surgeon to learn on them.
