It's not the same experience

The current death-spiral of health care in England has recently taken an even steeper angle as schools over there are now increasingly deciding that biology students (translation: future doctors) may no longer perform animal dissections, not out of any ethical concerns but rather the tired old saw of  "health and safety reasons":

"Schools are abandoning the practice of cutting up frogs, rats and animal organs which has been a mainstay of biology lessons for generations, out of concern for squeamish pupils and fears that they could turn their scalpels on each other. 

Many institutions now use plastic replicas or computer animation in place of practical dissection, but experts have warned that “sanitised” simulations will fail to equip the future generation of biologists with essential practical skills." 

Have there in fact been a rash of laboratory duels to the death using probes and forceps?  Of course not, but that fact doesn't seem to mean anything to the British nuts who are in charge of education.

The vital importance of specimen dissection in the field of biology, particularly human anatomy and physiology, cannot be overstated.  No substitute technique, however technologically advanced, can come close to replicating viewing the actual structures in situ.  We can emphatically state this based upon years of personal experience.

We're quite sure the average British subject will be just thrilled to learn their future doctors learned anatomy by viewing videos and handling plastic models because they were too "squeamish" to study the real McCoy.