THE STILL VIDEO CAMERA - A SUITABLE AND CONVENIENT METHOD OF DEMONSTRATING POST-MORTEM FINDINGS

The post mortem demonstration continues to play an important role in m edical education at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Howeve r, for a variety of reasons its format needs to be adaptable in order to maximize the educational benefit and increasingly to comply with le gislation. We have developed a method of demonstration based upon a st ill video camera system which we have found is acceptable to our stude nts and overcomes some of the problems associated with other formats. In this paper we describe the system itself, compare it with other sys tems, discuss its potential applications and present the results-of a questionnaire-based survey of the first groups of medical students to be taught in this way. These results confirm that the technique is pop ular with students and that it appears to be a useful teaching modalit y worthy of further development.