Usefulness of smart glasses and point of view for suturing skills training in medical students: pilot study
Takaaki Sato, John Sandars, Jeremy Brown, S.N. Rogers
Abstract
Smart glasses are a wearable computer device equipped with a compact video camera, which offers live streaming and video recording from the wearer’s point of view (POV). In the last decade, smart glasses in surgical education have been widely adopted, including live streaming to allow a surgeon to remotely mentor another surgeon to improve their performance.1 In clinical training, recent research suggests that reviewing the recorded video from the trainees’ POV improves their self-reflection and augments the trainer’s feedback.2 We are interested in the potential of using smart glasses and POV for surgical skills training in medical students. No previous publication has been identified. We conducted a pilot study to investigate the perceived usefulness of smart glasses and POV for suturing skills training in medical students. Twenty-four preclinical medical students participated in a suturing skills training workshop. The workshop was held in three phases: