Evaluation of the GeSRU-Steps educational video concept (German Society of Residents in Urology e. V.)

Abstract

Surgical educational videos represent acontemporary, multimedia supplement to surgical education and training. The German Society of Residents in Urology e. V. (GeSRU) developed an educational video platform (steps.GeSRU.de) with free, quality-assured educational videos for urologists, especially for residents. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the GeSRU Steps teaching videos. Prospectively, 29GeSRU Steps training videos were made available (03/2019-05/2023) via amboss.com, and an online questionnaire was inserted following the videos. This comprised 12items on medical, technical, and didactic quality, usefulness for own knowledge acquisition, and sociodemographic data of respondents. Aspects of video quality were assessed with the Acceptability E‑scale and the Global Quality Score. During the survey period, the GeSRU Steps videos implemented on the amboss.com website were viewed 49,698 times. Atotal of 474 questionnaires were answered (rate 0.25%). The collective of respondents consisted of 419 (88%) students, 47 (10%) physicians in training, and 5 (1%) specialists; 351 (74%) were female, 107 (23%) were male, and 4 (1%) were diverse. Each educational video was rated amedian of 10times (range 5-65). The six questions of the Acceptability E‑scale and the Global Quality Score were rated good and very good (81.6-95.8%), respectively. GeSRU teaching videos achieved avery good rating with high user satisfaction. By specific promotion of these teaching videos, which are quality-assured through supervision, the portfolio of surgical videos available at alow threshold can be expanded and can serve as acontemporary education tool.