How to Develop an Online Video for Teaching Health Procedural Skills: Tutorial for Health Educators New to Video...

Area of Science:

• Medical Education
• Clinical Skills Training
• Audiovisual Production

Background:

• Clinician educators possess essential procedural skills but often lack video production expertise.
• Limited guidance exists in clinical education literature for creating procedural videos.
• This tutorial aims to bridge that gap for clinician educators interested in video creation.

Purpose of the Study:

• To outline the essential steps for developing a medical procedural video from a clinician educator's perspective.
• To provide a checklist of quality elements for effective procedural video production.
• To identify barriers and facilitators in the procedural video creation process.

Main Methods:

• A skeletal muscle processing video was created, divided into preproduction, production, and postproduction phases.
• Learning outcomes, storyboards, and scripts were developed and validated by experts.
• Video and photo capture, editing, narration, closed captioning, and interactive quiz integration were performed.

Main Results:

• The final 4-minute video required 70 hours to produce and included narration, captions, and an interactive quiz.
• Key factors for effective videos include clear learning outcomes, engagement, learner-centric design, multimedia learning principles, adult learning theories, and high audiovisual quality.
• A quality checklist was developed, and significant time commitment for skill-building was identified as a barrier, while communities of practice and simulations were facilitators.

Conclusions:

• The study outlines procedural video production steps and a quality checklist for clinician educators.
• These resources guide educators in creating quality videos, acknowledging the time, technical, and cognitive demands.
• The findings support the development of effective multimedia resources in medical education.