• Kamil Erözkan, Serdar Culcu, Selim Tamam, and Ali Ekrem Unal.
• Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, Ankara University Cebeci Hospital, Ankara University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
• Medicine (Baltimore). 2022 Nov 25; 101 (47): e31537e31537.

AbstractThere is no standardization in videos uploaded to Youtube. Were the videos capable of contributing to adequate technical quality and surgical training? We are aiming to answer these questions in this paper. It is a cross-sectional study. In January 2022, we searched the Youtube platform using the keyword "distal pancreatectomy." The substantiality, transparency, reliability, quality, popularity and educational values of the video content were evaluated after exclusion criteria. These parameters were evaluated using we the modified Journal of American Medical Association benchmark criteria, Global Quality Score (GQS), Video Power Index, modified laparoscopic pancreatectomy scoring system. The videos uploaded after the pandemic had a statistically significant higher GQS score (P < .001). Video Power Index, like GQS, had a statistically significant difference before and after the pandemic. (P = .046). There was no significant difference in the evaluation of the reliability and substantiality. Until the development of Youtube videos is completed, peer-reviewed, more reliable and content-rich online education platforms should be preferred in the first place. Care should be taken to watch selected videos on Youtube videos.Copyright © 2022 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.

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