Photo Getty/iStockOtago University medical students have admitted to performing surgical procedures on themselves and their peers, according to The New Zealand Medical Journal. In a survey of 284 students at the Otago University medical school, 15 students - seven male and eight female - had admitted to performing procedures on themselves. Most students, 92 per cent, had practised medical procedures on their peers. Of the 264 students who reported performing on peers, 173 said they were unsupervised. The study was developed as a result of information gathered from interviews during a television documentary, Practising Medicine, which followed medical students at Otago University.

Source: Otago Daily Times October 27, 2016 19:01 UTC