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Surgical students are less capable than their forebears, due to spending too much time with screens and not enough with physical materials. These claims, from Imperial College London鈥檚 professor of surgical education Roger Kneebone, were widely reported this week. But it鈥檚 not clear that this is really the case.
According to Kneebone, today鈥檚 students lack the manual dexterity that鈥檚 important for sewing, cutting and stitching. He argues that this is because, instead of taking part in creative subjects that involve working with their hands聽during their education, 鈥渁 lot of things…
