We read with great interest the article by Brown et al,1“Development of a Surgical Video Atlas for Resident Education: 3-Year Experience.” Inthis article, the authors present their excellent work collaborating with the Journalof Medical Insight (JOMI) to produce 29 otolaryngology surgicalvideos to aid in surgical education. We agree that high-quality instructional surgical videosenhance trainees’ development, accelerate surgical skill acquisition, and provide a neededsupplement to operative experience in a time when operative volumes and trainee surgicalinvolvement may be altered by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.2,3 Illustrating the heightened need forasynchronous learning platforms, other recent publications have highlighted surgical atlasvideos, podcasts, recorded lectures, and readings in a proposed COVID-19 era otolaryngologymedical student curriculum.4,5
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