Ensuring open access education is one of our core values at TVASurg, which is why our content is currently free for everyone, everywhere. However, this is only sustainable with your help. If you love TVASurg videos or if they’ve helped you in your surgical training, please support the atlas by donating. With your help, we … Read More
At TVASurg we love making engaging educational videos for teaching surgery. All members of our production team are graduates of the esteemed Biomedical Communications program at the University of Toronto–Mississauga, where we received focused training on communicating topics in life science with the same techniques used in the 3D animation industry. These include modelling, rigging, … Read More
We would like to acknowledge our awesome intern Min Jee Kim, a student at the Master of Science in Biomedical Communications Program at the University of Toronto. She has worked diligently this past summer to produce the wonderful Right Hemicolectomy Patient Education video. Throughout the process, Min Jee has continued to amaze us with her … Read More
Hi there, my name is Lesia Szyca, and as the newest TVA Surg member, I would like to introduce myself for this month’s blog post.
The annual Association of Medical Illustrators meeting has just wrapped up, and this year TVASurg production team members gave TWO presentations! What follows is a summary of the “tech talk” Senior Biomedical Communicator Paul Kelly gave on using the software 3DFlow Zephyr for making photogrammetry-based 3D models for surgical subjects. https://youtu.be/tnGmrtAtYT4
With every project we work on together as a team, we learn new techniques for creating our educational content, and continuously refine our production process. We recently completed an anterolateral thigh perforator flap harvest technique for our ENT section of videos. We’d like to use this case study example to give an overview of our … Read More
Back in March, we published a blog post detailing our process of using 3D models in pre-surgical planning for a right lobe living donor hepatectomy. To continue the series, we will be moving on to our next case example – a left lateral segment living donor hepatectomy for use in pediatric liver transplant. The 3D … Read More
Adobe Premiere Pro used to be our go-to video editing software, but for the past two years, we have started experimenting with DaVinci Resolve by Blackmagic Design. We find the interface to be quite intuitive. This software is packed with powerful features and it’s FREE! The free version contains most of the functions we need … Read More
What is Notion? Improving team workflow is something we’re always looking to do, especially during the pandemic when virtual organization and communication is even more important. In the past, we’ve tried various project management and collaborative apps like Google Drive, Trello, and Asana. While they excel in certain areas of project management and task tracking, … Read More
Last month we reviewed some basics on how to reconstruct 3D computer models based on patient scan data, using an open source 3D reconstruction software, 3D Slicer. A more in-depth post on modeling can also be found here. Apart from utilizing them in our educational videos, these 3D models generated from reconstruction softwares also serve as … Read More