Pictured at the RCSI Open Days 2017 students watch a real-life 3D gall bladder operation using virtual reality. More than 350 students from second-level schools throughout Ireland got a taste for life as a medical, pharmacy and physiotherapy student at the RCSI Open Days which took at the College on St Stephen’s Green in Dublin. The event gave students an opportunity to find out what it is like to work as a healthcare professional through interactive workshops in each of these fields including experiencing a real-life 3D operation using virtual reality, witnessing a pregnancy scan, and getting some hands-on practice in physiotherapy and pharmacy, as well as a sneak-preview of the new state-of-the-art facilities opening at RCSI’s city-centre campus later this year.