title: Surgical videos online: a survey of prominent sources and future trends.
abstract: This article determines the extent of the online availability and quality of surgical videos for the educational benefit of the surgical community. A comprehensive survey was performed that compared a number of online sites providing surgical videos according to their content, production quality, authority, audience, navigability, and other features. Methods for evaluating video content are discussed as well as possible future directions and emerging trends. Surgical videos are a valuable tool for demonstrating and teaching surgical technique and, despite room for growth in this area, advances in streaming video technology have made providing and accessing these resources easier than ever before.
authors.affiliation: Henry Madden Library, California State University, Fresno, California 93740-8014, USA. adinscore@csufresno.edu
authors.forename: Amanda
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dinscore
authors.forename: Amy
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Andres
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D004501:Education, Medical; D020407:Internet; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000193:education*; D014743:Videotape Recording