How the deceased teach the living: a talk discussing medical students’ feelings about dissection - featuring puppets and magic.

“Spending so much time with a patient who's dead gives you more appreciation for the living.”

A medical student’s first dissection can be an emotional experience: ethical and existential anxiety mix with awe, wonder and morbid fascination. Join researchers in Anatomy and the medical school to explore how the performing arts might help us understand this complex rite of passage and its implications for future patients.

The event includes an introduction by project lead, Dr Alex Mermikides (D’Oyly Carte Senior Lecturer in Arts and Health), and performances, based on interviews with our medical students, created by puppetry, magic and theatre artists.

• Includes discussion and light refreshments.

• 4:00pm: Presentations and discussion

• 5:00pm: Refreshments

“It was a bit like a trial of whether you'll be a good doctor or not”

“I feel such an emotional connection to her, and I respect her”

The Drama of Dissection project is supported by King’s College London Faculty Innovation Funding and King’s Artists.