School of Medicine
MEDI 101 Heart Surgery
Learn to speedily and accurately perform a virtual heart transplant. Emphasis on the heart only.
Course DescriptionProf 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?
Blood Level Remaining | 0-1000ml |
2000ml |
3000ml |
4000ml |
+5000ml |
Grade | F |
D |
C |
B |
A |
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