Video education in open trauma: a program for developing trauma surgical skills

Successful implementation of an open trauma video recording program requires clearly stated roles and responsibilities, a shift in work culture, and full integration of video recording into a trauma system's existing workflow. Use of the appropriate handheld and head-mounted cameras offers the opportunity to seamlessly collect high quality video footage with minimal impact to the operating team. A large and diverse open trauma video repository allows surgical trainees to review novel cases, attending surgeons to review previous cases, and overall improvement of educational conferences and didactics. Surgical trauma video recording and postoperative review represents a viable, inexpensive, and highly transportable solution to the recent reductions in overall trauma caseloads for surgical trainees across the globe.