The UTMB DIG sponsored a pig’s foot excision and suturing session on Thursday afternoon for DIG members in the dermatology conference room. Dermatology faculty, Dr. Richard Wagner, and PGY4 dermatology residents, Dr. Mika Yamazaki and John Stephens, assisted medical students in learning how to excise, undermine, and suture pig skin with buried absorbable dermal simple interrupted sutures and surface closure with nonabsorbable simple interrupted and vertical mattress sutures using instrument ties.
