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Jfc no one is learning surgery from a video. A resident looks up an article or a textbook chapter, watches a video, then assists - and when they’re assisting, t
by arkades 7y ago
Jfc no one is learning surgery from a video. A resident looks up an article or a textbook chapter, watches a video, then assists - and when they’re assisting, they’re better prepared because all of the above. Then they watch a video to refresh. If the video is nonsense, they’ll know right quick. They’ll assist many times before they take lead, and will take lead with a supervisor many times before ever going solo.
The headline makes it sound like someone is watching a YT video and then walking into the OR to perform an operation.
- dang 7y agoThe headline sounds reasonably neutral and factual to me. If someone wants to suggest a better one, we can change it.
- starpilot 7y agoI didn't get that impression from the headline at all.
- notadoc 7y agoNot everything is taught in medical schools, which means there are gaps in knowledge. That can be problematic when a particular unique approach is more valid for a specific subset of patients. In those cases, the only way to learn how to perform those variational procedures might be by watching it online. Would the surgeon feel confident with that situation? That's another question entirely.