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Finding Technique Clips and Building a Learning Collection with the AI Assistant

Dotan Asselmann
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The AI Assistant can do more than answer questions about your case volumes and outcomes — it can find specific moments in your surgical videos and show them to you as clips. Ask it in plain language to show how you perform a step, pull clips of a technique across your cases, or gather related cases into a learning collection, and it surfaces the video right in the conversation. This article explains what you can ask and how to phrase it.

Show How You Perform a Step

Ask the assistant to show a specific step from your own cases and it searches your recorded cases for that moment. When a recording is available and the step is identifiable from your case data, the assistant returns a clip you can play directly in the chat.

Try phrasings like:

  • "Show how I perform a critical view of safety."
  • "Show how I perform a urethral transection."
  • "Show me how I close the vaginal cuff."

Name the procedure and the step as specifically as you can — "Show how I do the shoe-shine maneuver" returns a more focused result than "Show my technique." If no matching recording or identifiable step is found, the assistant explains what it could not locate.

Find Clips of a Specific Technique

When you want to compare a technique across several of your cases, ask for clips rather than a single moment. The assistant can return a gallery of clips drawn from multiple cases.

Try phrasings like:

  • "Show me clips of my colpotomies."
  • "Clips of my critical view of safety attainment."
  • "Show hilar control on a partial nephrectomy."

You can add context to the request — for example, "Show me clips and information around gastrojejunostomy" — and the assistant pairs the clips with a short explanation. Results are drawn only from your recorded cases.

Ask What Is Happening at a Moment

If you want to know what is visible in a recorded case at a specific moment, ask the assistant to describe it. The assistant needs a case and a timestamp to look up the frames, so this works when a case is already in context — either because you named or found the case earlier in the conversation, or because you include the case and time in your question.

Try phrasings like:

  • "What is happening at 2 minutes 31 seconds in my last laparoscopic cholecystectomy?"
  • "Describe what's visible at the 4-minute mark in [case name or ID]."

The assistant looks at the video frames around that moment and describes what is surgically visible, grounded in the procedure and the annotations on the case.

Build a Learning Collection or Atlas

Ask the assistant to gather related cases and it will propose a smart collection — a saved, self-updating set of cases that match your request. The assistant presents the proposal in a confirmation card in the chat; once you approve it, the collection is created and available from Cases → Collections. This is the fastest way to assemble a teaching library or a personal learning atlas.

Try phrasings like:

  • "Build me a learning atlas of my HoLEP cases."
  • "Collect my nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy cases."
  • "Create a collection of my cases where a critical view of safety was achieved."

After you confirm the proposal, the collection appears under Cases → Collections and keeps updating as new matching cases arrive. Collections built through the assistant include only cases with a video recording. To learn how smart collections work and how to pin one to your homepage, see Smart Collections.

Find Supporting Literature

The assistant can also search the published literature to accompany what you are reviewing. Ask a question like "Find literature on nerve-sparing outcomes in radical prostatectomy," and it returns relevant articles with citations when PubMed returns results for your query.

Tips for Phrasing Technique and Clip Queries

  • Name the procedure and the step. "Show how I perform a vesicourethral anastomosis" beats "Show my technique."
  • Say "show," "clip," or "collection" so the assistant knows you want video moments or a saved set rather than a count or a table.
  • Refer to "my cases" to help the assistant focus the search on cases you participated in. All results are limited to the cases you already have permission to view.
  • Ask follow-up questions. The assistant keeps context within a conversation, so you can refine "Show my colpotomies" down to a single case without repeating yourself.

To create and download a clip manually from the case page instead of through the chat, see How to Create a Video Clip.

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