Did the Initiation of ACOG Surgical Curriculum Affect Accuracy of Videos Published on YouTube for Ob-Gyn Resident Education? [ID: 1374093

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: The purpose of this study was to assess the accuracy of open-access online obstetrics and gynecology procedural videos to the ACOG Surgical Curriculum in Obstetrics and Gynecology (SCOG) and its educational value. YouTube is commonly used as an easily accessible resource for education and surgical preparation. There is no current research that evaluates instructional videos for educational usefulness across multiple obstetric and gynecologic procedures. Given the rigorous workload of residents and the fact that they are already relying on these videos, despite the lack of known quality control, this study was designed to develop an efficient way to determine whether any given video can deliver quality information that is useful for building surgical skills. METHODS: The SCOG topics were entered into YouTube search queries. The resulting videos were screened with strict exclusion criteria. The percent accuracy of each video was calculated as compared to the SCOG checklist for the corresponding procedure. RESULTS: Three hundred six videos were analyzed and categorized into six groups: private practice/independent physicians (n=127), academic institutions (n=70), commercial companies (n=50), nonacademic institutions (n=32), international health care organizations (n=20), and other (n=7). Using the SCOG checklist, videos produced by international organizations had the highest percent accuracy at 50.6% followed by academic institutions at 45.8%. CONCLUSION: Using the SCOG checklist, there is a significant variance in the accuracy of educational videos depending on the associated publishing organization. Ob-gyn residents should be mindful of publishing organizations on YouTube videos to ensure they are learning from accurate content in line with SCOG.