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Surgery students spend so much time swiping on flat, two-dimensional screens that they are losing the ability to perform simple tasks necessary to conduct life-saving operations, such as stitching and sewing up patients. As a result, students have become less competent and confident in using their hands—leading to very high exam grades despite a lack of tactile knowledge.
Roger Kneebone, professor of surgical education at Imperial College, London, argues that two-dimensional flat screen activity is substituting for the direct experience of handling materials and developing physical skills. Such skills might once have been gained at school or at home, by cutting textiles, measuring ingredients, repairing something that’s broken, learning woodwork, or holding an instrument.
Kneebone now notices that medical students and trainee surgeons are not comfortable cutting or tying string because they don’t have practical experience developing and using these skills. He also mentioned that colleagues in various branches of medicine have made the same observation.
See also this BBC news item: Surgery Students ‘Losing Dexterity to Stitch Patients’.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday March 27 2019, @04:41PM (1 child)
Most human surgery uses fine motor skills on the order of 0.1" pitch through hole electronics. This surface mount crap with 0201 components is for machines, and 0.1%ers who have the natural dexterity and eyesight to deal with them.
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(Score: 2) by RS3 on Wednesday March 27 2019, @05:30PM
And really nice Nikon stereo microscopes. :) (it's great for getting splinters out too)
Otherwise, yes, I wasn't a fan of surface-mount 20 years ago, and now I just can't believe how small resistors are. What bugs me is they use the 0.1 mm (or so they look) resistors on very sparse boards. They just look like some dirt that needs to be wiped off. And lots of BGA chips no more than 2-4 mm square.
For us who like to tinker, there are surface-mount to through-hole IC adapters. :)