BLOG: Gain surgical experience from experts (Healio)
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Mobile technology has the potential to help educate colleagues around the world through the sharing of cases, images and errors, yet finding a platform on which to do so has been evasive. Enter ICUC, a new iPad app developed strictly for the education of surgeons by other expert surgeons through case-based sharing and commentary. Although only in its infancy, ICUC is an impressive and free app that provides tips, techniques and learning points previously inaccessible in any format.
In many ways, ICUC represents the future of surgical education. With a concept founded by orthopedic surgeons in 2003 and an app launched in 2014, ICUC has a high-quality and intuitive user interface. After selecting a body region from the main screen, the user has access to the ICUC Library. The library includes a continuous and complete registration of surgical procedures performed by a group of selected surgeons. Because all cases are collected during a given period, cases both with and without errors exist.
An overview page for each case includes the AO fracture classification, assessment of o...
