Four hundred teenagers who may be considering medicine as a career, have been finding out what it’s like to be a doctor at the open day of the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin.

Report shows the exterior of College of Surgeons.

Secondary school children in a lecture theatre.

Vox pop interviews with students considering careers in medicine.

Students looking around the college.

Interview with Professor William MacGowan, Registrar, on the purpose of the open day.

The reporter is George Devlin.

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