Top Surgeon and TV Star Helps Students Perform Brain Surgery

The Medical Society at Cronton Sixth Form have welcomed the Clinical Director from the Walton Centre to the College to speak to aspiring surgeons and give them an insight into his life as a neurosurgeon and the hard work and commitment needed to follow a career in medicine.

Mr Paul May is also the president of the Royal Society of surgeons and regularly appears on the channel five television programme about the centre, ‘Brian Hospital: Saving Lives’. The esteemed surgeon spent time with the science students at Cronton talking about their careers and some of the procedures they perform on a daily basis explaining how talent coupled with sheer hard work and determination allows you to achieve a great life and career.
All of the students then had the opportunity to perform brain surgery on melons under the watchful eyes of Mr Paul May.

Jill Greenhalgh, Science Tutor at Cronton Sixth Form said, “It was an exciting and extremely interesting visit, all of the students found it enormously absorbing and inspirational. We were very privileged to have him come to speak to the Medical Society at Cronton.”