Basic Plastic Surgery Skills Training Program on Inanimate Bench Models during Medical Graduation
Figure 2
Inanimate bench models simulating incision and suture techniques. (a, b) Cattle-skin bench model simulating circular, linear and elliptic patterns of incision. (c) Pig-skin bench model simulating vertical mattress suture. (d) Synthetic ethylene-vinyl acetate bench model simulating subdermal interrupted suture; training should preferably be carried out near the edges of the material, and it is advisable to use multiple overlapping synthetic material plates aiming to mimic the different layers of the skin. Note that all the three bench models are simulating the procedures in a three-dimensional way.
