Supplementing OR teaching with video-based coaching

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This study finds that video-based coaching is feasible for supplementing intraoperative teaching of residents to perform surgery.

Teaching in a video-based coaching session was compared with teaching points made during a corresponding OR case.

Teaching in video-based coaching sessions was more resident centered. Surgeons were more inquisitive about residents' learning needs, and residents took more initiatives to direct their education. Surgeons also more frequently validated residents’ experiences, asked more questions to promote critical thinking, and set more learning goals. More complex topics, such as intraoperative decision making and failure to progress were more thoroughly developed and explored.

Video-based coaching may be particularly useful for teaching higher-level concepts, such as decision making, and for individualizing instruction and feedback to residents, the authors say.

This mixed methods analysis evaluates a postoperative video-based coaching intervention for residents.