About this teaching technique

This is a compilation of material from YouTube, illustrating how to insert an IUCD, in particular the Mirena device. While there are several good videos out there, we could not find one that covered all the points in the way that satisfied our needs. So this mashup is an attempt to bring together the salient points.

So why did we take this somewhat kludgy and chopped up approach to teaching IUCD insertion?

1. There is lots of pretty good video material on this procedure already on YouTube. 

2. It is difficult to clearly capture good video within the narrow confines allowed by the speculum... and beyond the external os, there is nothing to see but much to understand. The animations convey these parts more clearly. 

3. We could not find a single video that showed the steps that we wanted to convey. 

4. Navigating to the relevant segments of each video is time consuming and awkward. 

So we have simply spliced the useful excerpts from a selection of videos, interspersed with relevant helpful text to explain what to watch for. We do not copy or lift the material from its original site, and we give due attribution to the original creators. 

Think of this as a variety of hyperlinked citations. In this age of copyright restrictions, we found that this approach was compliant with Fair Dealing (in Canada) and Fair Use (in USA). Comments on this are welcomed.