Junior Doctor Club

Junior Doctor Club is co-curricular club, unique to Croydon High School. The programme has been designed by Mrs Kugathas, to give pupils a taste of what medical school is like. In the last few weeks we have performed two types of stitching and surgery.

Firstly, we did sutured oranges, as they replicate the texture of human skin. We used curved needles (often used of for making hats) to simulated what is used in operations.

We then performed keyhole surgery which required extreme precision. We made the “bodies” out of cardboard boxes and added holes for light, the tongs and our phones to replicate the camera and screen used for keyhole surgery. We did the polo mint challenge to test our dexterity. In this challenge, we tied string around the polo mints (with the tongs).

We found both challenges very hard, but fun.

Emily, Ahaana, Lorelei, Emilie, Alisha, Milly, Emma and Livia
Junior Doctor Club members