Benefit of an action camera in endoscopy education for medical students under COVID-19

BMC Medical Education

Research

Shunhei Yamashina¹  Toshifumi Sato¹  Hiroyuki Isayama¹  Akira Uchiyama¹  Satoshi Sakuma¹  Kenichi Ikejima¹  Akihito Nagahara¹  Yuichi Tomiki² 

[1] Department of Gastroenterology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-Ku, 113-8421, Tokyo, Japan;Medical Education, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan;

关键词: GoPro;    Live- action camera;    COVID-19;    Esophagogastroduodenoscopy;    Medical education;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12909-023-04702-6

 received in 2023-03-20, accepted in 2023-09-19,  发布年份 2023

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundEndoscopy is an important form of clinical gastroenterology education because it gives students the opportunity to learn about diagnosis procedures and even treatment. During the COVID-19 pandemic, medical students were observed from outside the endoscopy room due to the risk of airborne infection. In this study, we investigated the efficacy of combining endoscopy education with doctor’s-eye-view videos of the procedure obtained using live-action cameras (GoPro®).MethodsFrom February to May 2021, endoscopists wore GoPro Hero8 cameras on their heads to display a doctor’s-eye view video outside the room. The efficacy of the GoPro videos in combination with endoscopic monitoring was evaluated by 15 participating medical students. The participants rated the efficacy on a 5-point scale and commented on the positive and negative points.ResultsA total of 78.6% of participants evaluated the GoPro as good; 57.2% answered that it increased their understanding, with 71.4% stating that it increased their understanding of procedures in particular. A total of 85.7% of the students answered that their interest in endoscopy had increased, and 85.7% evaluated the benefit of the GoPro videos as good. In addition, 64.3% answered that the method was effective in preventing COVID-19 infection. Education using GoPro videos enabled students to feel as if they were conducting the endoscopy themselves and enabled them to concentrate on learning.ConclusionsPractical endoscopic education using a GoPro is an effective educational tool that not only increases understanding of endoscopic practice but also stimulates students’ interest and awareness of their future as doctors.

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