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Telementoring symposium introduction: Comparative Technology in Telementoring...
With Dr. Knut Augustad & Dr. Brian Duncan & Dr. Steven Rothenberg · hosted by Dr. Todd Ponsky
Chapter 1 of 4 · Fundamentals
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What the experts said
49 countries are participating in this symposium.
Over 200 hospitals are watching the symposium.
Mighty (Methodist Institute for Technology, Innovation and Education) is probably the largest surgical training center in the world.
Telementoring is defined as one expert surgeon beaming into another surgeon's room to help guide them through an operation.
There is debate about whether telementoring will be used in emergency situations or as part of education.
Karl Storz Endoscopy has been a leader in creating the technology used for telementoring.
Dr. Knut Augustad wrote one of the original papers on telementoring.
Dr. Brian Duncan, as past president of SAGES, made telementoring a top priority and catapulted it to the mainstream.
Dr. Steven Rothenberg has been doing telementoring for over 10 years using multiple different technologies.