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Knee Surgeons as online educators of their peers

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Professor Adrian Wilson

Knee Surgeon

Mr Adrian Wilson is a consultant knee surgeon based in London in the UK. His practice involves all aspects of knee surgery including knee arthroscopy, meniscal surgery (meniscal repair, replacement and transplantation), cartilage surgery (microfracture, mosaicplasty, MACI, artificial replacement gr…

July 30, 2017

A brief discussion about the direction of medical education.

Modern knee surgeons are feeling progressively more at home with multi-media education.

The ESSKA Academy have embraced multi-media education and are creating an archive of educational material by surgeons and for surgeons. ESSKA - the European Society of Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy - and their Academy is is a professional society that represents Europe in the fields of degenerative joint disease and sports medicine, and their Academy helps members to keep completely up-to-date.

Modern knee surgeons are feeling progressively more at home with visual education - tele-conferencing, tele-education and online forums.

However, the creation of high quality educational material takes time, patience and expertise.

Here are some of the things that I have learned about preparing educational surgical videos during hands-on demonstrations:

  • The surgeon should use a head-mounted camera system, which will focus on the fingers via a finger-tracking mechanism. This can produce high definition video, ideal for surgical training.
  • With an appropriate head-mounted 3D camera, live surgery can be recorded stereoscopically and broadcast live over the internet.
  • To avoid distraction, the use of eye-wear is also recommended, or Google Glass can add a further element by recording conversations between the operation team.
  • Then you need a good narrative, and some of the operating room background noise, to create ambience.