Increasing numbers of doctors studying surgical techniques on YouTube



With 2 billion unique users every month and 500 hours of movies uploaded per minute , YouTube is no longer the world's largest video sharing platform. There are many movies on the YouTube that contain surgical procedures, and doctors around the world are learning about surgical techniques and how to handle new medical devices from YouTube, CNBC, an overseas news media I'm reporting.

Doctors are watching surgical procedures on YouTube
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Dr. Justin Ballad, who completed his surgical training in 2015 at the University of California, Los Angeles , encountered a problem he had never experienced before and had to use a new device without sufficient training Because it became more and more, it was said that he began preparing for watching movies published on YouTube. According to Dr. Ballad, there are many movies on YouTube that explain difficult operations and unusual cases, and YouTube was referenced in the operating room.

According to CNBC, some doctors publish their own surgery on YouTube as reference material for doctors, and use it for job hunting as proof of their own skills. about. In October 2019, a team of doctors working at Austin Hospital in Australia had only about 500 movies of surgery posted in 2009, whereas in 2019 only 20,000 prostate surgery We have announced that the above movies have been posted.

In 2016, the University of Iowa conducted a survey of medical students and doctors, and about 86% of respondents answered that they have used YouTube for surgical training materials.


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In addition, there are tens of thousands of surgical-related movies that are so popular that they have been viewed over 1 million times. For example, a cataract surgery movie at Wills Eye Hospital in Pennsylvania, USA, has recorded over 1.8 million views at the time of writing.

The work of “distributing surgical video materials” is inherently expensive, but by using a large online platform like YouTube, you can publish video materials at a low cost The However, on the other hand, YouTube itself is not a platform specialized in medical care, and content is not scrutinized, and content is displayed based on popularity rather than quality.

Dr. Oliver Arami, a vascular surgeon at Stanford Hospital, revealed that he himself is using YouTube, but `` Surely the movie of surgery on YouTube is useful, but some of its contents I think that should be verified. '

In a study announced in 2017, more than 68,000 movies on surgery for distal radius fractures have been uploaded to YouTube, but researchers evaluated in technical and educational aspects , It was reported that only 16 videos that meet the basic standards were found. Also, there were movies whose practitioner's credentials were unknown.

The doctor at Austin Hospital also pointed out that the movies displayed by the YouTube search algorithm are never ordered by the doctor's technique. For example, about half of the movies about gallbladder extraction surgery using a laparoscope seemed to lack safety considerations.


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The situation where YouTube is used around the world as a medical data library seems to be recognized by Google, which operates YouTube. David Feinberg, Google's Vice President of Health, pointed out that many surgeons are paying attention to YouTube at an event in November 2019. Feinberg also said that he wanted to manage quality content better as part of fighting fake news about healthcare across Google.

Some health care professionals have expressed their willingness to cooperate with YouTube to help scrutinize digital content for healthcare. Steven Krasco, CEO of Jefferson Health , one of them, said, “In the long run, YouTube should push superior medical content such as surgery over other video content.” The future that Google should welcome is to become an official social partner. '


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“We recognize that technology will change healthcare, but do professors in medical science really understand programming and social media at the same level as students?” And many medical education institutions pointed out that medical education has been conducted in a way that has not changed from the past, and that it has not been adapted to the digital age.

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