CNBC November 24, 2019
KEY POINTS
- Tens of thousands of surgery-related videos are on YouTube, and the number keeps climbing every year.
- Some doctors say that medical students and residents rely on YouTube to fill in gaps in their training.
- For that reason, some medical experts are calling for better vetting and curation of the content.
When Dr. Justin Barad was a medical resident, he would often encounter a problem he’d never managed or be asked to use a device without much training.
So he’d turn to YouTube.
Barad, who completed his surgical training at UCLA in 2015, said YouTube has become a fixture of medical education. He’d often get prepped by watching a video before...
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