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A partnership with Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine to support
2019’s Cut Suit Week
Introduction
The need
Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic
Medicine (RVUCOM), a leading provider of
graduate medical education, has a
longstanding tradition of surgical training and
simulation. For the 2019 annual Intensive
Surgical and Trauma Skills Course, also known
as Cut Suit Week, second-year military
students and various law enforcement
agencies used San Diego’s Stu Segall
Productions lot to gain hands-on experience
in trauma and emergency medicine.
The event, hosted by Strategic Operations, Inc.
(STOPS), the makers of the Cut Suit®, in
collaboration with RVUCOM’s Military
Medicine Track, has become an important
training opportunity and milestone for
students and law enforcement agencies alike.
During the week, students rotate through task
trainer skill stations and participate in
scenario-driven mass casualty drills.
With Cut Suit Week involving a full program of
interactive sessions, Anthony J. LaPorta, MD,
FACS, Professor and Course Director for the
Military Track at Rocky Vista University wanted
to ensure that participating students were
prepared ahead of time. In particular, the task
trainer skill stations, where students rotate
through surgical core competency skills,
demand familiarity with the basics of the
relevant lifesaving interventions. In the past,
students received textual preparatory
materials via email. Whilst sufficient, these
preparatory materials did not fully immerse
and engage students. Furthermore, without a
way to track uptake, it was difficult for
RVUCOM leadership to understand whether
the materials were useful.
For 2019’s Cut Suit Week, RVUCOM partnered
with Digital Surgery to develop a more
interactive and data-based approach to
prepare participating students.
Our solution
to ensure that participating students were
prepared ahead of time. In particular, the task
trainer skill stations, where students rotate
through surgical core competency skills,
demand familiarity with the basics of the
relevant lifesaving interventions. In the past,
students received textual preparatory
materials via email. While sufficient, these
preparatory materials did not fully immerse
and engage students. Furthermore, without a
way to track uptake, it was difficult for
RVUCOM leadership to understand whether
the materials were useful.
For 2019’s Cut Suit Week, RVUCOM partnered
with Digital Surgery to develop a more
interactive and data-based approach to
prepare participating students.
Building more interactive training content using surgical videos.
Digital Surgery worked with RVUCOM
organizers to upload and annotate four videos
for the 2019 Cut Suit Week via its video storage
and analytics platform, Touch Surgery
Professional. Each video focused on a core
competency critical to saving lives during
mass casualty and trauma events. These were
Cricothyrotomy, Deep Wound Packing,
Needle and Chest Tube Thoracostomy, and
Tourniquet Application.
Instructional content was built by a small
group of RVUCOM students and staff,
including the uploading of videos and use of
the platform’s single-click annotation feature
to insert phases and key objectives, as well as
reminders for best practice and built-in
assessments. Surgical videos - existing yet
frequently underused resources – were
successfully utilized to create powerful and
engaging preparatory materials in a fraction of
the time it would have taken to edit videos
with standard video editing software.
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simulated techniques (which did not contain
any Personally Identifiable Information (PII)),
the security features provided an extra layer of
reassurance that teaching materials are being
handled securely.
"With limited faculty interactions, a large number of procedures to learn, and alternative
approaches to the same procedure, residents face a difficult learning curve.
Touch Surgery Professional offers a way to repurpose surgical videos, allowing us to teach not
only one way, but many ways to perform the proper procedure. It has made a big difference in
the way we prepare students in real life, with a REAL LIFE AT STAKE”
Colonel Retired, USAMC; Professor of Clinical Surgery and Course Director of Military Track for Rocky Vista University; Department of Defense Health Board Committee on Trauma and Injury
Anthony J. LaPorta - MD, FACS
Assessing engagement and comprehension
As invited students accessed the training
materials, Digital Surgery provided updated
data reports to RVUCOM leadership. These
reports outlined engagement (i.e. which
videos have been viewed and by how many of
the invitees) and assessment scores (i.e.
maximum, minimum and average test scores).
For the first time, the organizers of Cut Suit
Week could identify whether or not students
engaged with the preparatory materials and
whether they had any additional training
needs.
Distributing content securely to permitted members
RVUCOM invited half of the participating
students, selected at random, to access the
newly created preparatory materials and
assessments. Invited students received an
alert via email, and were immediately able to
access materials securely via mobile or web
after signing up with the Touch Surgery app.
This meant that busy medical students could
engage with the materials anywhere and
anytime - in the morning, between classes or
whenever time allowed.
Touch Surgery Professional is hosted on the
Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud, meaning
that video content is hosted and stored in a
HIPAA- and SOC 2-compliant environment.
Although RVUCOM chose to use videos of
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The impact
Digital Surgery ran an independent survey of
participants who prepared for Cut Suit Week
using the Touch Surgery Professional platform.
Nearly all surveyed users agreed that they
would recommend the product to others.
RVUCOM is in the process of independently
coordinating objective assessments of
performance outcomes on the skills labs
portion of Cut Suit Week with the use of the
Touch Surgery Professional platform. Results
will be updated as they become available.
WOULD RECOMMEND TO A COLLEAGUE
RETAINED TECHNIQUES DURING SKILLS STATION
HELPED TO INCREASE CONFIDENCE
HELPED PREPARE FOR SKILL STATION
89%88%
n=15
90% 91% 92% 93% 94%