Highlights
- •Video-based education (VBE) is increasingly utilized in medical education.
- •General surgery residents preferentially use VBE to learn the steps of an operation.
- •Residents prefer an open-access, peer-reviewed resource.
- •Publication of VBE modules should take residents' self-perceived needs into account.
Abstract
Background
Video-based education (VBE) is an effective tool for knowledge and skill acquisition
for medical students, but its utility is less clear for resident physicians. We sought
to determine how to incorporate VBE into a general surgery resident operative curriculum.
Methods
We conducted a single-institution, survey-based needs assessment of general surgery
residents to determine desired content and format of an operative VBE module.
Results
The response rate was 84% (53/63), with 66% senior (postgraduate year ≥3) resident
respondents. VBE was the most commonly cited resource that residents used to prepare
for an operation (93%) compared with surgical textbooks (89%) and text-based website
content (57%). Junior residents were more likely to utilize text-based website content
than senior residents (P < 0.01).
The three most important operative video components were accuracy, length, and cost.
Senior residents significantly preferred videos that were peer-reviewed (P < 0.05) and featured attending surgeons whom they knew (P = 0.03). A majority of residents (59%) believed 5-10 min is the ideal length of an
operative video. Across all postgraduate year levels, residents indicated that detailed
instruction of each operative step was the most important content of a VBE module.
Senior residents believed that the overall indications and details of each step of
the operation were the most important contents of VBE for a junior resident.
Conclusions
At this institution, general surgery residents preferentially use VBE resources for
operative preparation. A centralized, standardized operative resource would likely
improve resident studying efficiency, but would require personalized learning options
to work for both junior and senior surgery residents.
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: February 27, 2021
Accepted:
January 31,
2021
Received in revised form:
January 10,
2021
Received:
July 31,
2020
Footnotes
This was prepared as part of the Association for Surgical Education (ASE) Surgical Education Research Fellowship (SERF) program.
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