Presentation Type
Lightning Talk
Date
2025-11-20
Description
Since the 1970s, the University of Virginia School of Medicine’s Medical Center Hour has hosted speakers who explore the relationship between medicine and society. When patrons request access to recordings that have not been digitized, staff must carefully review the footage to identify sensitive material such as PHI and apply redactions before making the video accessible. While this process ensures compliance with privacy and confidentiality requirements, it can surface deeper emotional and ethical concerns. Staff may be exposed to distressing content during review, and patrons may be confronted with emotionally challenging material with little preparation. This presentation discusses how trauma-informed practices can strengthen workflows for video review, redaction, and access in medical institutional repositories. Using the Medical Center Hour lecture series as a case study, the speaker will highlight strategies for supporting staff engaged in sensitive review work, developing redaction protocols that balance transparency with confidentiality, and incorporating content warnings and metadata that ethically contextualizes materials. By acknowledging both the compliance requirements and the emotional labor of video review, trauma-informed approaches help medical institutional repositories safeguard the integrity of their collections while also supporting the well-being of staff and users who engage with them.
Keywords
MIRL Symposium, 2025 MIRL Symposium, lightning talk
Rights and Permissions
Copyright © 2025 The Author.
Repository Citation
Greenwood, Amanda, "A Trauma-Informed Approach to Video Review in Medical Institutional Repositories" (2025). Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium. 12.
https://scholarlycommons.henryford.com/mirl/2025/program/12
A Trauma-Informed Approach to Video Review in Medical Institutional Repositories
Since the 1970s, the University of Virginia School of Medicine’s Medical Center Hour has hosted speakers who explore the relationship between medicine and society. When patrons request access to recordings that have not been digitized, staff must carefully review the footage to identify sensitive material such as PHI and apply redactions before making the video accessible. While this process ensures compliance with privacy and confidentiality requirements, it can surface deeper emotional and ethical concerns. Staff may be exposed to distressing content during review, and patrons may be confronted with emotionally challenging material with little preparation. This presentation discusses how trauma-informed practices can strengthen workflows for video review, redaction, and access in medical institutional repositories. Using the Medical Center Hour lecture series as a case study, the speaker will highlight strategies for supporting staff engaged in sensitive review work, developing redaction protocols that balance transparency with confidentiality, and incorporating content warnings and metadata that ethically contextualizes materials. By acknowledging both the compliance requirements and the emotional labor of video review, trauma-informed approaches help medical institutional repositories safeguard the integrity of their collections while also supporting the well-being of staff and users who engage with them.