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bet­ter known as: Fre­quent­ly Asked Ques­tions (FAQs)

What is Sectio chirurgica?

Keep­ing with our mot­to vivid anato­my and surgery, we offer med­ical edu­ca­tion videos that focus on anato­my and surgery, always keep­ing in mind there are oth­er clin­i­cal and pre­clin­i­cal sub­jects. We offer a look at the whole spec­trum of med­i­cine in excit­ing and inno­v­a­tive livestreams and on-demand videos in our media library. Dis­cov­er cut­ting-edge med­i­cine per­formed either on human spec­i­men or real patients.

Who is behind Sectio chirurgica?

Sec­tio chirur­gi­ca is a project of the Insti­tute of Clin­i­cal Anato­my and Cell Analy­sis of the Eber­hard Karls Uni­ver­si­ty Tübin­gen, Ger­many, head­ed by Prof. Dr Bern­hard Hirt. Our guests are sur­geons, radi­ol­o­gists, and many oth­er rep­re­sen­ta­tives of med­ical dis­ci­plines of the Uni­ver­si­ty Hos­pi­tal Tübin­gen, the BG Clin­ic Tübin­gen, and oth­er hos­pi­tals. Of course, Sec­tio chirur­gi­ca would be noth­ing with­out our team of more than 20 stu­dents. They work tire­less­ly behind the scenes to make sure each episode runs smooth­ly.

Who is Sectio chirurgica for?

Sec­tio chirur­gi­ca is a closed event for

• Stu­dents of human or den­tal med­i­cine
• Stu­dents of sub­jects relat­ed to med­i­cine as in med­ical engi­neer­ing, mol­e­c­u­lar med­i­cine, nurs­ery or sci­ence of mid­wifery etc.
• Grad­u­ates of above-men­tioned sub­jects (physi­cians, biol­o­gists, med­ical engi­neers etc.)
• Reg­is­tered nurs­es, sur­gi­cal assis­tants, med­ical assis­tants, med­ical pro­fes­sion­als, emer­gency staff etc., and trainees there­of.

Detailed infor­ma­tion can be found in our Terms of Use.

Why do I have to sign up to watch the videos?

At Sec­tio chirur­gi­ca we per­form sur­gi­cal pro­ce­dures on anatom­i­cal spec­i­men. These spec­i­mens are the bod­ies of peo­ple that donat­ed their bod­ies to the Insti­tute of Clin­i­cal Anato­my and Cell Analy­sis with the pur­pose of mak­ing them avail­able for teach­ing and research after their death. As Insti­tute of Clin­i­cal Anato­my and Cell Analy­sis of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Tübin­gen, it is our oblig­a­tion to adhere to the eth­i­cal require­ments of the Body Dona­tion Pro­gramme. There­fore, we will abide by the agree­ments made with the body donors.