This resource will help you to either:
- Help in porting (re-purposing and editing) existing content as open source resources
- Gradually develop and expand complementary content such as images, video or simulator construction instructions
- Collaborate with new partners on improving existing modules
Contents
About the modules
The Challenge aims to create a paradigm shift in the way surgical training is delivered by giving surgical practitioners access to freely accessible training modules that will allow them to assess their own skills. The current paradigm sees simulation-based training take place in a classroom setting. We want to shift the focus on to self-assessment; allowing surgical practitioners the ability to learn new skills and test their own skills acquisition independently. So along with the development of new training models, modules need a self-assessment frameworks that allow surgical practitioners the ability to test their own skills acquisition outside of a classroom.
Ultimately, we aim to populate an online community platform with surgical training modules. These modules will contain all the know-how needed to create and build the surgical training model, perform the training and assess skills acquisition. These open-source modules will be validated by both the competing team and through an external validation process, to ensure modules effectively teach outlined skills.
- Self-assessment: Each surgical simulation model will be accompanied by a self-assessment framework, allowing surgical practitioners to test their newly acquired skills.
- Open source: All modules (the model, know-how for build and training materials) will be free to download online from the Global Surgical Training Community platform.
- Low-cost: In resource-constrained settings globally, many surgical practitioners are unable to access low-cost, simulation-based training. Due to a lack of access to cadavers, animal models or simulation-based training, many surgical practitioners undertake procedures for the first time on patients.
Why open-source?
Open source is defined as referring to something people can modify and share because its design is publicly available.
The purpose of simulating low-cost open-source modules through this platform is to help surgical practitioners to learn and assess new skills to improve the health of their communities using simulated environments. The Challenge aims to create a paradigm shift in how surgical practitioners learn and assess surgical techniques especially in resource constrained areas.
What is the greater impact?
The most comprehensive surgical training programs rely on access to cadavers, live animal training models and expensive simulation-based training. Without access to such training, surgical practitioners in resource-constrained settings often have less hands on experience before they are expected to operate on patients. Through this platform, we want to shift this learning into simulation-based training. We want to focus on self-assessments; allowing surgical practitioners the ability to learn new skills and test their own skills acquisition independently. So along with the development of new training models, competitors in the Challenge will be asked to create self-assessment frameworks that allow surgical practitioners the ability to test their own skills acquisition outside of a classroom.
Getting Started with content creation
새로운 플랫폼을 배우고 학습자를 위한 콘텐츠를 만드는 것은 압도적일 수 있습니다. 괜찮아요! 우리는 당신을 얻었다. 이 가이드는 요구 사항을 확인하고 사용 가능한 모든 전제 조건 문서를 종합하여 수술 교육 모듈을 원활하게 구축할 수 있도록 하는 데 중점을 둡니다.
체크리스트에 들어가기 전에 가이드 전체에서 계속 사용할 몇 가지 용어에 대해 논의하고 싶습니다. 그것들은 다음과 같습니다:
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이러한 모듈에 액세스할 사람을 알면 그들이 이해할 수 있는 방식으로 구성할 수 있습니다. 콘텐츠 작성자와 학습자의 두 가지 유형의 사용자가 있습니다. 콘텐츠 제작자는 귀하와 같은 수술 조직이고 학습자는 콘텐츠를 개발하는 사람들의 그룹입니다.
콘텐츠/모듈 제작자
콘텐츠/모듈 제작자는 이러한 학습 모듈을 만드는 팀, 조직 또는 외과 의사입니다. 그들은 학습자가 appropedia를 통해 이러한 기술을 배울 수 있도록 정보, 시뮬레이션 도구 및 평가 도구를 제공할 숙련된 전문가입니다.
학습자
학습자(또는 학습 그룹)는 이러한 교육 모듈의 사용자입니다. 이들은 이러한 교육 세션을 사용하여 기술을 원격으로 습득하고 환자에게 사용하는 사람들입니다. 교육 모듈 및 학습자 기술 세트에 따라 모듈에서 중점을 두는 두 가지 유형의 학습자가 있습니다.
- 외과 학습자 - 구축한 모듈이 외과 훈련에 초점을 맞춘 경우 학습자는 외과 학습자가 됩니다.
- 병원 전 외상 학습자 - 병원 전 외상 학습자는 주어진 모듈에 의해 병원 전 출혈 관리에 대해 교육을 받는 학습자가 됩니다.
이러한 학습자 그룹의 몇 가지 예는 의료 전문가, 의료 캠프 현장 자원봉사자, 응급 직원, 간호 직원 등입니다.
- 외과 학습자 사양의 예: 학습자는 정형외과, 일반 외과 또는 성형 수술을 배우는 GYN 거주자/지역 사회 외과 의사 또는 성형 또는 일반 외과 레지던트와 같은 전통적인 교육에 대상 수술 절차를 포함하지 않는 전문 분야의 지역 사회 외과 의사 또는 외과 레지던트일 수 있습니다. /정형외과 수술을 배우는 지역사회 외과 의사.
- 병원 전 외상 학습자 사양의 예: 학습자는 출혈 관리에 대한 사전 교육이나 현장 경험이 없는 지역사회 구성원 또는 최초 대응자일 수 있습니다.
다음은 학습자 설명을 만드는 방법에 대한 안내입니다.
도구 상자
가이드의 이 부분은 작업의 학습 및 영향을 최대화하는 시뮬레이션용 콘텐츠를 편집, 구성 및 생성하는 방법에 초점을 맞추기 때문에 매우 중요합니다.
모듈 프레이밍 및 생성
가이드의 이 부분은 미리 정의된 템플릿을 사용하여 수술 훈련 모듈을 만드는 방법과 apppropedia에서 콘텐츠를 편집하는 방법에 중점을 둡니다.
템플릿 사용
미리 로드된 페이지는 페이지를 처음부터 시작하지 않도록 Google에서 만든 자동화된 템플릿입니다.
사전 로드된 모든 페이지는 특정 범주의 지식을 적절하게 문서화하고 공유하는 데 필요한 기본 요소를 포함하도록 설계되었습니다. 이러한 미리 로드된 페이지를 사용하려면:
- 해당 텍스트 상자에 페이지 제목을 입력합니다. 최대한 구체적으로 작성하고 맞춤법이 정확한지 확인하세요.
- 만들기 버튼을 클릭하고 페이지가 로드될 때까지 기다립니다. 미리 로드된 새 페이지가 나타납니다.
- 데이터 상자에 포함된 모든 메타 정보를 편집합니다. 각 페이지 오른쪽에 있는 청록색 상자는 검색 가능성 향상과 같은 많은 멋진 기능을 사용하여 페이지를 색인 생성 가능한 지식 소스로 구성하는 데 도움이 됩니다.
- 페이지가 속할 범주를 결정합니다. 모든 페이지는 적절한 범주로 구성되어야 하므로 처음 저장한 후 모든 페이지 하단에서 올바른 범주를 다시 한 번 확인하십시오.
이 단계 후에 필요한 것은 만들고 있는 주제에 따라 콘텐츠를 수정하는 것뿐입니다. 원하는 다른 요소를 추가할 수도 있습니다. 항상 진행 상황을 저장하는 것을 잊지 마십시오!
이러한 템플릿을 사용하여 교육 모듈을 만드는 방법에 대한 이 비디오를 볼 수 있습니다.
콘텐츠 편집
모든 리소스는 7개 범주로 구성되어 있으며 각 범주는 대회 활동에 유용한 도구 전용입니다. 각 범주에는 관련 주제 목록이 포함되어 있습니다. 주제를 클릭하면 링크 목록이 나타납니다.
Appropedia 사용: Appropedia 사용, 콘텐츠 생성 및 리소스 업로드에 대한 자습서 및 권장 사항.
디자인 및 작성: 제안서를 작성하고 프로젝트에 대한 디자인 사고를 구현하기 위한 스타일 지침입니다.
Audiovisual: Tutorials and suggestions in case you need to take pictures, create video or record audio for your projects.
Digital and physical design: Tools and instructions in case you need to implement 3D simulations and digital reality on your projects.
Online work and collaboration: Tools and best practices for online teamwork, mentoring and collaboration.
Education: Guidelines and articles on creating effective education texts, assessments and resources.
Data and digital: Tools and best practices in case you need to implement data science and artificial intelligence on your projects.
This is a list of internal and external resources for the Global Surgical Training Challenge.
Do I need to master all categories for the Challenge? No. This is a list of tools, recommendations and tutorials you may use while participating in the competition. This Toolbox removes the need for you look for this information on your own and provides easy access whenever you need it.
THIS IS NOT A SYLLABUS YOU MUST LEARN BY HEART. Use these page as you would use a toolbox in real life: take what you need, hone your skills and don't be afraid to try new things.
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Creating Surgical Training Content
Importing Existing Content to Appropedia
If you are a partner and want to work with us by linking your trainings to our global surgical community. We can help you move content from your pages to Appropedia. Here are some ways you can do that:
Importing Pages from another Wiki page
Importing content from a Website
Phase Based Content Creation Approach
When creating module content, you want to consider some pointers which include not overwhelming the user with too much content and organizing module in a way that it can be easily navigated. A tried and tested way of doing this is Phase-based content approach. The typical phases in which syllabus can be organized could be as follows:
- Phase 1 - Knowledge Review Covers a crash course on topics and concepts needed to simulate the surgical environment
- Phase 2 - Simulation Build Process of replicating the simulation environment using videos, tutorials and detailed guidance
- Phase 3 - Skills Practice Once the learner has the simulations, they need to learn to practice the surgical skills that they would be performing in the real world
- Phase 4 - Self Assessment Before actually performing these skills on humans, we want to allow the learner to gain confidence in their learning by providing them some self assessment tools.
Some of our GSTC teams that have been able to impart knowledge using this approach are:
Self Assessment
In the above section, we talked about self-assessment as a phase of learning while building content for surgical training. Let's discuss it a little more in detail with examples of some self assessment modules available on Global Surgical Training Challenge Modules.
Self assessment is an important part of the open source surgical training as it allows the learner to assess their standing and gain confidence in the skills they have learned.
It can be in the form of a series of multiple choice questions or case-based assessment that gives them multiple scenarios to practice these skills.
Some examples of self assessment learning modules are as follows:
Technologies to create simulations for surgical trainings middle income countries
In order to be able to understand how to create simulations, we need to first understand what is a simulation?
A simulation is the imitation of the operation of a real-world process or system over time. In surgical training environments we are using open source simulations to build hardware and software models of human body systems for learners to practice surgical skills before performing them in real life. This allows users to create low-cost learning environments especially in low income and resource constrained settings. Simulations can be hardware as well as made on software applications to be accessed via web.
Hardware Simulations
When it comes to hardware simulations, some technologies that can be used are 3D printers, mannequins, AED models, etc. These technologies help simulate real life human body models to practice surgical skills on.
Software Simulations
As the world is growing, virtual simulations of surgical training have become very common using virtual reality, augmented reality or mobile phone apps. If you have software simulations that you want the user to access, make sure that they are available to access for users through all platforms.
If it is a web application, be sure it is hosted online for anyone to access remotely. To host web based simulators, you will need a website, a domain and a hosting service. Make sure you are not providing a local computer link for web simulations. You can find out more about making websites publicly available here.
If you are building apps, make sure that they are available on Google Playstore and App Store for Android and Apple users respectively. We know that uploading an application on the App Store is more tricky than on Google Playstore, therefore, we also recommend considering an alternative mentioned below. Note that the app's functionality on the alternative will not be as good with respect to the real app but it will be closed since we are testing it on a simulated platform.
Follow steps to make the app live on Google Playstore
Follow these steps to make the app live on App Store
Follow these steps to upload the app on a web based android emulator (for apple users if you cannot make the app live on App Store)
You can also get your open-source content certified. An example of a platform that helps you do that is this
Good Practices
When creating content, we know that thinking creatively and out-of-the box helps. Some good practices that we have highlighted to making more structured and easy to learn are:
- Goals of the module
- Using Sandbox
- Syllabus Formation
- Media
- Case Based Learning
- Keywords Optimization
- Plan B in Resource-Constrained Settings
- Glossary
- References Citations
- Checklist of Deliverables
Advanced Topics
Once you have created content and learned how to use the Appropedia platform to publish your modules, you need to also look into the accessibility part of it. Some of the advanced topics in our guide will help you achieve that goal.
Keyword and Search Engine Optimization
There are certain pointers we must consider in terms of content organization and publishing that help people find modules more effectively, both on Appropedia and other search engines. This technique is called Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
Our guide here focuses on the following very important and effective SEO techniques:
- Page Content Optimization
- Naming Conventions
- Headings
- URLs
- Linking
- Content Organization
- Team Names
- Third Party Advertising
- Keyword Tagging
Support
If you have any questions or encounter any technical difficulty while navigating Appropedia, feel free to discuss it on the GSTC Talk page. You can also contact us directly at support@appropedia.org. We're always happy to hear from you and will reply as soon as possible.