SCTS Education Tips & Tricks Operative Video Prize

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Cardiothoracic Surgical Trainees (NTN trainees and Trust Appointed Doctors) are invited to produce an operative video for the SCTS Education Tips & Tricks Operative Video Prize.

The aim of this annual prize are:

• To encourage trainees and trainers to utilize video technology for training, and
• To accumulate an SCTS education video library of training videos, which will be made available to SCTS members on the new SCTS website

Prizes to be awarded to all winners.

Only videos of procedures in the accepted video lists, which you can find below, will be considered, However, the competition is open-entry so you may choose to submit an operative video procedure from a level different than your own. 

Procedure Lists: 

Cardiac Video List        Thoracic Video List

 

Submission Instructions and Requirements:

The videos should be submitted as a high definition (HD), AVI or MPEG-4 video file, no more than 5 minutes in duration, and can be made using any recording device, including smart phones, video cameras or professional equipment, and there should be a voice over on the initial submission.

Please include patient consent and consultant approval with the submission

For further details:

If you require further information, please contact: 

Deborah Harrington (SCTS Education Secretary), Elizabeth Belcher (SCTS Education Secretary) or Michael Shackcloth (SCTS Surgical Tutor) through mara@scts.org

 

Previous Years' Entries

For previous years submissions, please visit the SCTS Trainee YouTube channel