DaVinci Resolve by Blackmagic is a fantastic video editing application that’s completely FREE!! We’ve shown an overview of our process on using DaVinci Resolve for surgical video production in a past blog, and recently released a video presentation we gave at the Association of Medical Illustrators on using education and design principles in our videos. … Read More
In a previous blog post, TVASurg team member Jean Lin described the basic workflow we use for editing surgical video footage using DaVinci Resolve, and in the summer of 2021, Jean and Paul presented an in-depth analysis of this workflow at the Association of Medical Illustrators virtual annual conference. In June of 2021, the Biomedical … Read More
This month we’d like to feature a fantastic Masters Research Project 3D animation by recent Biomedical Communications graduate Katrina Hass MScBMC, who worked with trauma surgeon Dr. Joao B. Rezende Neto MD, PhD, FRCSC, FACS to demonstrate a new surgical invention: the “Liver Airbag”.
We were recently hired to create a logo for the Division of General Surgery at UHN. While most of our day-to-day work is focused on 3D-animations and video editing to help teach complex surgical procedures, we’ve occasionally been contracted out to do some design work, including a logo for the High School Outreach Initiative (HSOI) … Read More
https://youtu.be/xKOpzmnHWlQ Happy holidays! Let’s welcome together another exciting year full of exciting new content. Thank you so much for supporting us through this challenging year. Thanks to your support and contributions we have continued to maintain our monthly video release schedule throughout the pandemic, populating our OB-GYN, ENT, and HPB chapters with cases and patient education modules. We’ve … Read More
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