India, Nov. 5 -- Mumbai's largest civic-run public hospital, KEM, is developing a bioskills laboratory for medical students, mid-career doctors, consultants, paramedics and nursing staff to learn/ upgrade their skills. Doctors will get first-hand experience of various surgical procedures such as endoscopies and laparoscopies, ophthalmologic, orthopaedic, renal and gynaecological surgeries, knee replacements and even robotic surgeries on cadavers.

The bioskills lab is part of the virtual autopsy centre, the first in the state, that is being set up in the hospital. Bioskills labs are of two kinds-dry and wet. In dry laboratories, learning is centred around artificial models while training in wet labs takes place on cadavers. KEM Hospital w...