The Development and Evaluation of 3D Videography as a Surgical Training Tool

The process of learning new technical skills is key to the success of any aspiring surgeon. The acquisition of these new skills has been shown to be influenced greatly by visual‐spatial ability and thus, may be difficult for some learners to rapidly assimilate. In many instances, the role of visual‐spatial ability on the acquisition of learning a novel technical skill has been explored; however few studies have probed the impact of a 3D video learning module on the acquisition of new surgical skills. The first aim of this study is to capture spatially complex surgical procedures using 3D‐ videography and implement the footage into an internet‐based multimedia learning module. The second aim is to assess the role of 3D video as a medium to support specialized suture skill acquisition within e‐learning modules and the subsequent effect on the practice of new surgical skills in inexperienced medical and dental students. It is hypothesized that the influence of 3D learning modules as a surgical training tool will correlate positively with visual‐spatial ability and thus, surgical skill acquisition and ultimately performance in the trainee compared to a 2D video module of the same suturing lesson. Grant Funding Source : CRIPT Lab