Shared Learning Utilizing Digital Methods in Surgery to Enhance Transparency in Surgical Innovation: Protocol for a...

Area of Science:

• Medical Education
• Surgical Innovation
• Digital Health

Background:

• Surgical innovation offers improved patient outcomes but lacks standardized knowledge dissemination.
• Informal dissemination (e.g., social media) leads to inefficient learning, repeated errors, and delayed adoption of new techniques.
• There is a need for real-time, standardized methods for sharing surgical innovation knowledge.

Purpose of the Study:

• To conduct a scoping review of digital methods for surgical training, education, and feedback.
• To summarize existing shared learning methods in surgery, their application, impact, benefits, and barriers.
• To inform the development of novel, real-time methods for optimizing shared learning in surgical innovation.

Main Methods:

• Adherence to scoping review guidelines with 6 comprehensive searches across multiple sources.
• Inclusion of articles in English from the last 5 years, focusing on theater staff, digital shared learning methods, and evaluations.
• Two-stage study selection and 10% double data extraction, analyzed using descriptive statistics, narrative summaries, and thematic analysis.

Main Results:

• Systematic searches of 2 electronic databases yielded 10,093 records.
• The study commenced in October 2021 and is planned for completion in 2023.
• Results will be published open access in a peer-reviewed journal.

Conclusions:

• This is a comprehensive review of current methods for shared learning in surgery.
• Efficient knowledge sharing can optimize surgical research evaluation and reduce harmful innovation.
• Findings will guide the development of improved real-time learning methods for surgical innovation.