What the kind redditor said below is super helpful too, but if you're anything like me, you had to practice in-class and do check-offs, which you don't want to be doing with a piece of meat.
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Tip one: If you have real interest in surgery, buy more medical grade surgical tools because they're lighter and weirder and don't feel much like the practice kind. Learn in gloves including knot tying. Learn to tie knots.
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Mine: Your Design Medical 3 layer kit All silicone has the problem where the suture will cut through the silicon when you pull on it. This one did less than a lot of the higher star on amazon ones. Check that brand's website for deals/ sales/ etc. Pros: had every cut I needed for all of my check-offs, seemed to work better than a lot of other people's suture boards. Cons: Cut through some, the tools were bad though it's good to have a razor, was a little stiff.
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Other people's: Great Skin-like one Some classmates had this. It was big, has a lot of room for making your kits. A lot of people had a way better time with this. But due to the way the layers are, they had a hard time doing the sutures where you suture only under the skin not over and under. They have sales on their instagram sometimes I guess, around christmas!
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Caution: Don't get any of them that are like poured silicone into a box! Those were the worst.