Open AccessOphthalmic Telesurgery with a Low-Cost Smartphone Video System for Surgeon Self-Reflection and Remote Synchronous Consultation: A Qualitative and Quantitative Study
Author(s) -
M. Scott Hickman,
William Dean,
Lila Raj Puri,
Sanjay Kumar Singh,
Rachel Josefowitz Siegel,
Daksha Patel
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
telemedicine reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2692-4366
DOI - 10.1089/tmr.2021.0037
Subject(s) - medicine , software portability , trainer , rubric , quality (philosophy) , medical education , medical physics , multimedia , computer science , psychology , philosophy , mathematics education , epistemology , programming language
More than a third of the global burden of blindness is due to cataracts, yet cataract surgery is one of the most cost-effective surgical treatments in medicine. Poor surgical outcomes in many settings remain a major challenge, raising concerns about the quality and efficacy of surgical training. Reflective learning from video recordings of a trainees' surgical performance has a high educational impact and is available routinely for surgical training within high-resource institutions. However, the prohibitive cost and limited portability of current surgical video recording systems make its use problematic in low-resource settings and outreach environments.