Hands on Hearts

The Silent Mentor Program is truly unique. Our mentors gift themselves to your learning, allowing you to appreciate the handling of real human tissue so that you may refine your surgical skills. This learning journey is not only technical but also deeply spiritual, offering profound meaning about life and death.
We promise to honour this extraordinary gift by ensuring that our work — especially closure — reflects respect, precision, and gratitude. The quality of our closure becomes our indelible signature, offering dignity, closure, and comfort to the Mentor and their family.
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Hands on Heart is a unique blend of high-fidelity and low-fidelity surgical teaching, designed for both senior and junior cardiothoracic trainees. Participants will learn that correctness of technique, economy of movement, and lightness of touch are fundamental to surgical excellence.
These skills can only be mastered through understanding functional anatomy of the upper limb, proper surgical posture, optimal mechanics of the needle holder, and deliberate practice.
This course delivers all of the above and demonstrates how to continue training at home. We practice not until we get it right, but until we cannot get it wrong.


A red asterisk (*) indicates required questions.

  1. What is your age?*


  1. What year did you qualify (if at med school state the year you are in)*


  1. The course met my educational needs (1 poor; 5 good)*
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  1. The low fidelity models made sense to me (1 poor; 5 good)*
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  1. The presentations made sense to me (1 poor; 5 good)*
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  1. Silent mentor made the course unique (1 poor; 5 good)*
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  1. The venue and set up was good (1 poor; 5 good)*
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  1. The organisation of the event was good (1 poor; 5 good)*
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  1. Rate the faculty (1 poor; 5 good)*
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  1. My take home learning from the course*


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David
Professor in the Medical Education and Research Unit of the Faculty or Medicine at the University of Malaya