You do not need to have video skills, just an interest in sharing a video-donation gift from your patient. Focus on your work. We’ll do the rest through our Video Lab.

Camera position:
Point the camera at the area of interaction. This sounds basic, but can help. You do not need to include the whole body in video field. And you do not need to include the table in the image. Focus on where your hands touch the body. This will happen naturally if you are wearing a GoPro. If you are using a stationary camera, make sure you position it so that the visual field covers any anatomy your hands will touch. Wider views can be useful for context, but we’ll leave the creativity up to you.

Important: Cover patient identifiers.
The means placing a towel over the face (if the patient is deceased) or a barrier between the face the surgical site, if possible, during a live procedure ***and only if that fits for your operative management and your standard practices for care of your patient ***. Cover tattoos and written identifiers (for example by draping or wrapping in a towel).

Important: Be careful about audio patient identifiers.
If possible, keep patient identifers out of audio discussions — but, as always, the patient is your priority, so take care of your case as you normally would and as is comfortable. We can always edit audio and video.

A video submitted to the Library may be rejected because of factors unrelated to your video (for example, the site may already have many videos showing a similar finding).

For both the Library and your Institutional database, we do not allow showing of patient identifiers (face, tattoos, name tags, audio identifiers, etc.). If you are submitting to your private Institutional database and do not request our editing, and your video has patient identifiers, it will be rejected. While the Institutional database is viewable only to you, the site overall guarantees we protect patient confidentiality everywhere.

If you have a video demonstrating facial anatomy, please talk to us to see if we can make special arrangements. It will likely require documentation that specific patient consent has been obtained for what you want to show.

If you are submitting to the Library or your private Institutional database (with editing), we will catch the identifier and edit it out. We are skilled and experienced at keeping patient confidentiality. If you are aware of where in the video the patient identifier was exposed, we appreciate you dropping us a note so we can get right to it and remove it.

If you submit video repeatedly with multiple exposed patient identifiers, you will receive a warning and a follow-up trial period. If you are unable to provide video free of identifiers, we may no longer accept your video for consideration.

If you routinely work on a part of the body that identifies the patient (e.g. facial surgery), please talk to us to see if we can make an exception. Your work is valuable and we appreciate it. Our commitment to patient confidentiality, however, is greater than our educational goals. Let’s be sure to work together on this. See also (5., above).