Learn to speedily and accurately perform a virtual heart transplant. Emphasis on the heart only.

Prof Dan has the following tips for aspiring virtual team heart surgeons. You will learn on a free demo version of Surgery Simulator 2013, which is famous for being notoriously difficult to control. In order to doctor:

• Find a friend. One cannot doctor alone, it's too dangerous
• One person uses the mouse to move your hand, another uses the keyboard to move your fingers
• Choose to open the chest cavity with the pizza cutter, bone saw, or hammer
• Cut all the arteries until the heart stops beating, then remove
• This is a heart transplant. Emphais is on replacing the heart
• If you own Surgeon Simulator 2013, try their level. It is harder than this demo version
• To learn more about this surgery simulator, read about it's hilarious history here

• Know what your go-to tools are for each task
• Know the steps to removing the heart
• Be ready for more instruments and clunkier physics

Use this course page to practice your doctoring on a demo version of Surgeon Simulator 2013. You can assess your current grade with this chart. After completing a successful operation, how much blood remains in the patient?

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