ClinicalModelling launches ethics guide to support surgical learning

The ClinicalModelling project has released its first outcome: the Reference Book on Ensuring Ethical Standards and Technical Requirements. The document is the outcome of a series of sessions that involved professionals, specialists, and students. Its purpose is to ensure an ethical conduct throughout project.

The ClinicalModelling has released a Reference Book on Ensuring Ethical Standards and Technical Requirements. This document will enable the development of videos in a surgical context and simulated practice to reinforce the learning and training of professionals and students in the health sector. The digital document, written in English, is the outcome of a series of sessions that involved professionals, specialists, and students. Its purpose is to ensure ethical conduct towards both professionals and patients, while maximizing opportunities for their involvement in the project.

To create this manual, the ClinicalModelling partners conducted four sessions with approximately 50 professionals, specialists, and students from hospitals and universities in Portugal, Spain, Slovenia, and Poland, all of which are part of the project consortium.  These sessions provided in-depth discussions on standards, ethics, patient rights, privacy, and protection of personal data, as well as technical requirements for recording, editing, and visualising videos in surgical settings (hospitals) and simulated practice (universities) for learning and training purposes.

The Reference Book serves as a guiding framework for the implementation of the project, describing ethical principles, safety protocols, and technological features. It ensures ethical and deontological conduct by the entire team, involving professionals, students, and patients in the design of videos and maximizing their social impact.

Develop, test, and extend the use of videos to promote learning by modelling

The ClinicalModelling project aims to develop, test, and extend the use of videos to promote learning by modelling. This allows for the observation of videos produced by professionals and students from the consortium’s hospitals and universities in a real or simulated surgical context.

Surgeons, nurses, teachers/trainers, and students involved in the project will have access to smart glasses that enable them to capture, edit, and analyse videos produced in a surgical context (real or simulated). This will contribute to the continuous professional development of healthcare professionals and reinforce the technical and emotional management skills of students who simulate surgeries in learning laboratories at universities.

The launch of the Reference Book emphasises the spirit of collaboration and dedication of different professionals to the project, as well as the partnership’s commitment to safeguarding the rights and protection of personal data of professionals, students, and patients. The initial step is crucial in achieving the primary objective of Clinical Modelling, which is to provide continuous training to professionals and young individuals working in surgical settings. This is done through a learning-by-modelling and observation approach that can potentially be integrated into medical residencies and nursing internships in the partnership countries.

INOVA+ is part of the consortium for this project, which brings together 8 other organisations from 4 countries – Portugal, Poland, Slovenia and Spain – and is co-financed by the ERASMUS+ Programme.

ClinicalModelling, project nr. 101111665 is funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them