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The page displays a form you have to fill out to become a registered SurgyTec member. Fill out your personal information, create a login-name and password, check the box terms and conditions and click the submit button.
After clicking the submit button you will receive an email with a link to confirm your membership. Click on the link in the email to confirm your membership.

As a registered SurgyTec member you can enjoy the following features:

• view entire medical videos from other SurgyTec members
• rate medical videos and give your comments on them
• publish your video online to share your knowledge and skills
• be thrilled from getting a high rating for one of your videos or be inspired to improve your video or technique after getting a low rating
• get responses to your video in the attached comments and in active forum discussions
• contribute to a community larger than peers only and across all surgical disciplines
• see your list of friends grow with colleagues sharing the same passion, same preference for specific tools, techniques, across geographical and disciplinary borders
• spread the good news of your recently launched video
• have conversations with other SurgyTec members in forum topics relevant to your specialism

find videos

• view entire medical videos from other SurgyTec members
• rate and comment on videos from other SurgyTec members

share videos

• publish your video or presentation online to share your knowledge and skills
• get reactions and get rewarded in multiple ways

communicate with others

• search members, visit their page and invite them to become your friend.
• visit forums, and add valuable posts to general and specialism related topics or start your own topic

my surgytec personal page

• a personal member page to overview your videos, friends and messages
• stay up to date with videos and forumtopics of your specialism
• use messaging with SurgyTec members

All video’s on SurgyTec video’s and slideshows cab be viewed for free. By upgrading to the Gold membership you can start to earn from your video’s. Once a Gold member you get paid € 0,50 for each unique view by one of your colleagues. Learn more about a Gold Membership. As a SurgyTec member the reward will be intellectually. In discussions about your video (be it in threads of messages right under your video itself or in forum topics) sharing knowledge about the thing that comes from your hart, that should be considered a great reward coming from your colleagues. You will run into intellectual recognition (high rates) but maybe also a strong, painful advice (lower ratings) to change or further improve your technique, referring to a video from another colleague.

To end your membership, send an e-mail to Jeroen Stevens: stevens.hp@surgytec.com

When filming and publicizing surgeries or operations involving patients you need their consent. In those cases, we strongly advise you to get a written approval from the patient appearing in your video. As an example, you can download this patient consent form or use one of your own. Please take notice of your local judicial requirements and implications.

As for any presentation, it is a good thing to structure your own thoughts and put them in a chronological sequence. In order to help you, realising the best possible video sending your message across as clearly as can be, we offer you a setup for making your own video script here. Feel free to deviate from the chapters if you think this will enhance your presentation more. Do consult our helpdesk if you feel you need extra help: support@surgytec.com. Do try, do enjoy, do share and start gaining!

You can take a look at this video as an example how you could compose your own video. This video was shot by a member of the OR during an operation of dr Jerome Stevens with a standard camcorder. It was edited by himself in Studio from Pinnacle. All together it prolonged the duration of the operation with 15 minutes. Editing took around 4 hours. Uploading to the SurgyTec platform took 10 minutes. Completing the video tags and adding the chapters (to enable jumping through the video once a downloader has put the video into his/her library) only took an extra 5 minutes. So if he can do it - you can for sure!

A good video starts with good filming and needs good editing. You can leave it all to a professional video production company; SurgyTec can recommend you one of our partners. They will take care of filming and editing, so no extra knowledge or time is required from you.

You can also film your operation yourself with any DV camera on a tripod. Editing can be done with easy video software for starters or more professional video software for extensive creations.

Please take notice to the "do's & don'ts" for filming and editing.

There are two extremes to consider; filming and editing everything by yourself or leave it all to a professional film and editing crew. And various variants in between, like lining up nurses or hospital personnel. If you choose to outsource the filming of your surgery, SurgyTec is happy to recommend one of its video production partners. If you want to do it yourself, please take notice of our do's & don'ts for shooting a video:

the "do's" for shooting the film

1. make sure the (extra) camera battery is full and your tapes rewinded
2. make sure the 'steady shot' function of the camera is turned on, make use of a tripod or lead against a steady object while filming
3. follow a prepared script, but film as much as you can > you can cut it out later if you want
4. shoot at eye level, not from above or from below
5. make non-moving shots, keeping the camera fixed on the object/procedure you're filming without moving it
6. start with an overall shot of your operating room
7. make a close-up of the operating materials you will be using
8. film the start of the procedure
9. shoot some close-ups throughout the procedure (to improve the film / editing)

the "don'ts" for shooting the film

1. do not make 'pan-shots' (filming from left to right or vice versa) of the operating room
2. do not sweep from left to right (or vice versa) when filming
3. do not use the operating lamps on the spot you want to film! This will definitly result in to much light > use the general light of the room only.
4. do not accept loss of focus

You can edit your video yourself or leave it to a professional editing company. If you choose to outsource the editing of your video, SurgyTec is happy to recommend one of its video production partners. If you want to do it yourself, please take notice of our do's & don'ts of editing a video:

the "do's" for editing

1. make sure your video has a introduction - operation/procedure - ending
2. the video should have one clear message
3. only use the clear/steady shots of the procedure and when using explanatory text, use non-moving only
4. be consistent in using one type of crossover between separate shots (or don't use crossovers at all)
5. make sure the sound level is about the same level during the entire video

the "don'ts" for editing

1. do not accept chaos
2. do not change the natural chronological sequence of the case
3. do not make the shots to short
4. do not make your video 'to slow'

You can share videos by clicking on the button: SHARE YOUR VIDEO
When you are logged in, the page displays a sequence to publish and share your video online in 3 easy steps.

After uploading your movie, other SurgyTec members can rate your video and give feedback. Benefit from their comments, discuss your technique with them. You have the possibility to improve your message, perhaps even your technique itself, making the patient benefit.

If you don't have a video yet, or wonder what happens to your video after uploading, the share-submenu provides specialized explanations as well as a specialized help to answer any questions you may have.

Step 1: Browse to the video file on your computer by clicking the browse button.
Start the upload. (Uploading the file will take some time, please wait until a new page is displayed.)

Step 2: Fill in as much information about the video/surgery as possible.

Step 3: Add chapters to your video by searching the right video position, click 'add chapter, ........

Your video will now be waiting for approval by one of our moderators.
The moderator will be the first of the community to see and rate your video. If a minimum of 2 out of ten is scored your video is ready to be found on the Find page. You will receive a separate note of this important moment your is launched.

Do notify your friends through our social community tools by forarding the message that your video was approved and can be found on the SurgyTec platform.

For any extra help on sharing your videos, contact our webmaster: webmaster@surgytec.com

When you are finished, your video is automatically forwarded to the moderator. The moderator will be the first of the community to see and rate your video. If a minimum of 2 out of ten is scored, your video is ready to be found on the Find page. You will receive a notification of this important moment. Please notify your friends through our social community tools by forwarding the message that your video was approved and can be found on the SurgyTec platform.

You, the submitter of you own medical video, retain full ownership rights. By submitting your videos to SurgyTec, you will grant SurgyTec the right to publish these videos. You will receive royalties when people view your video. Please read our terms and conditions carefully on this matter.

Every community member, every fellow surgeon or surgical resident (and not any visitor not being a surgeon) can rate a video after viewing.

The moderator of each (sub)specialism, one of your collegues with a strong record of service and dedication to improve sharing knowledge by video, a PhD with a minumum epxerience in the field of 7 years, will be the first to rate a newly uploaded video.

As soon as this approval is granted the video will be visible on the Find page. From that moment on you will see the actual average rating and tghe specific rating given to this video up to that very moment. Your rating will directly influence these numbers, allowing both the uploader and the fellow members to take advantage of the appreciation of this video. The team of SurgyTec strongly believes that even if a video is rated 4 out of 10 this information as well as the video might still be of high value. It will motivate the uploader to re-evaluate his/her message, either at the level of presentation or at the level of content and technique. At the same time it might just give a fellow surgeon the impulse to reconsider standard techniques and further improve from a new point of view that currently might not be fully optimised yet.

It is our idea that together with the thread of messages and this rating along several topic (you might score high on scientific relevance, but low on clinical relevance) you will get the best value money can buy.

So do rate and accept being rated, use it, improve!

On the find page you can search and find the video of your interest.

Start off by making a (combination of) selection(s) from the six operation properties:
specialism, organ/region, tissue, etiology, technique and operation type.
After choosing each selection, a filter is applied to remaining videos. If the kind of video you are searching for is not available after making a selection, reset one of the selection boxes or click "clear selection"

According to your selection, the video results are listed. This list is default sorted on the overall rating (stars), but you can change this by clicking one of the 3 video radiobuttons or one of the 5 rating radiobuttons. The most relevant video for you will be showed on top of the list.

To play the video or get detailed information about the video, click the video thumbnail or the video title. To get more information about the member who uploaded the video, click on the membername.

The page displays an interactive and auto-didactical interface, allowing you to find the video(s) of your interest.

By making one ore more selections to narrow the results down to the most relevant videos available. This way you can find content to stimulate and enlight your knowledge about the topic of your choice.
Depending on what is most important for you to watch a video, you can sort the results on various video properties or ratings given by other members.

All videos have links to more detailed information about the video, surgeon, materials, abstract and a thread of comments of members that have watched a particular video.

On the video page you can play the video and read detailed information about the operation/procedure.

You can control the video with the controls on the bottom of the player.
You can jump to chapters by clicking on a chapter on the right side of the player

Below the video you can read detailed information about the operation/procedure.
Click on the membername to jump to his personal page for more information about the member or his published videos.
Click on pubmed-link to read the publication about the surgery/operation/procedure.

A rating for a video consists of 4 parts: quality, scientific relevance, clinical relevance, originality. The average of these four result in a combined rating displayed in stars.

After you have played a video, you can rate a video. By moving the sliders to the left and right you can adjust the height of a rating. Click "submit" to post your rating.

It is always possible to adjust your rating in a later stadium, your previous rating will be overwritten.

You can also give your comments on the video. This can be positive, negative, a question or a response to an other comment. Click "submit" to post your comment.