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WHAT IS THE TORONTO VIDEO ATLAS OF SURGERY?
The Toronto Video Atlas of Surgery is an open-access, 3D-animation enhanced surgical video atlas visited by surgical trainees around the world.
The Atlas aims to instruct surgeons in the surgical care of patients, and highlight the advanced surgical techniques required for treatment.
The videos are fact-checked by expert surgeons for accuracy and educational objectives. To help explain the unique nature of each patient's anatomy, all our videos are augmented by 3D computer animation, tailor-made from actual CT/MRI scans of the patient.
In addition to surgical videos for trainees, the Atlas also provies valuable resources for patients to help them prepare for their surgery.
To learn more about the atlas and its impact on surgical and patient education please visit www.tvasurg.ca
WHY THE ATLAS NEEDS YOUR HELP:
The Atlas is currently supported by philanthropy, with a limited timeframe, on a cost-recovery basis. While this has helped us create a sizeable roster of videos, with the help of your donations, we would be able to:
- Keep the Atlas free for surgical trainees everywhere
- Produce content beyond the one-video-per-month release schedule
- Expand the Atlas to cover different surgical specialties, especially those that are typically underfunded
- Provide more patient friendly resources to help them understand their surgeries
- Dedicate time and energy to explore different technologies in surgical education (i.e., taking our VR and photogrammetry experiments to the clinical level)
HOW THE FUNDS WILL BE USED:
Most of the funds would be distributed to production work, by supporting our team of specialists who are responsible for everything from writing the narrative script, filming and editing the surgical footage, creating custom, patient-specific computer models and animations, as well as website maintenance and social media marketing.
A portion of the funds would also help us to bring cutting edge technology to be used in open access surgical education resources. As part of our commitment to help surgeons teach surgeons, we have conducted experiments in photogrammetry, as well as virtual reality. We document our findings and results in our monthly blog posts, further funding would help translate these results into practical, scalable modules that can be used in a clinical setting.
HOW YOU CAN HELP:
If you would like to support the surgical video atlas and help keep it accessible to surgical trainees worldwide. Please do consider supporting us by donating. Donations of any size are gratefully accepted.
Tax receipts: Tax receipts will be issued for Canadian donations over $20. For US tax receipts, please call the Foundation office at 416-340-3935 (toll free 1-877-846-4483) or contact us by email at foundation@uhn.ca.