Aspiring surgeons don’t have it easy.

In order to learn the trade, they often have to squeeze into an already crowded operating room and jostle for space.

If you count the surgeons conducting the operation, a fellow, a resident doctor, nurses and other members of the team, getting a clear sightline is rare.

“It’s only the chief resident that really gets to see that part of where the surgical intervention is happening,” says Aleks Cenic, a neurosurgeon at Hamilton Health Sciences and an associate professor of surgery at McMaster University.

Troubled by both the inequity and the inadequacies of teaching surgery like this, Cenic dreamed up a new way to learn the craft.

Students can now witness a live procedure through his startup Vivo Surgery’s cloud-based platform from home, and on thei

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