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Table 1 Trigger videos used in the faculty development sessions

From: Trigger videos: a novel application of a tool for surgical faculty development

Trigger video

Description

Teaching challenges/behaviors depicted*

Open gastrectomy

Trigger video depicting teaching challenges faced by a staff surgeon during a complex case (OR running late risking cancellation of last case, intraoperative bleeding, surgeon worried about her car)

Managing time pressures, personal, and OR-related distractions

Retroperitoneal node dissection

Trigger video depicting negative and positive teaching strategies to cope with significant intraoperative bleeding

Losing composure during a case, failing to lead, blaming resident, unclear communication with OR team, assisting resident and role-modeling in a difficult situation

Right hemicolectomy

Trigger video depicting an intern’s first day on a service where the staff and senior resident are not interested in teaching and the intern is “getting in the way”

Teaching to only one level of learner, poor role modeling, inappropriate behavior in OR, negative teaching environment

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy

Trigger video depicting two different strategies to coach a resident on a type of case the resident had previously struggled with, while also teaching the medical student

Teaching multiple levels of learners, providing feedback and instruction when resident struggles, debriefing after a case

Ankle open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF)

Trigger video depicting a resident struggling through a case without getting instruction or feedback from the staff surgeon

Inability to adapt to level of learner, poor role modeling, failure to brief before case, being distracted as a teacher

  1. *Some teaching challenges built into the videos are listed above, but many more nuanced issues were identified by participants as shown in Table 2