Professional Medical Training Media Producer/Director/Videographer/Editor

Medical Videos
  • CODE BLUE... From Chaos to Calm - How your staff performs when a Code Blue is called can make the difference between life and death. Published by JB Lippincott.

  • You are responsible! Universal Precautions - Protection for healthcare workers. In compliance with C.D.C and O.S.H.A. recommendations. Produced by JB Lippincott. Published by JB Lippincott.

  • Balancing the risks... The Restraint Dilemma - A system designed for deciding on the use of restraints. Published by JB Lippincott.

  • Fire... The First Decision. - Is your medical staff prepared to face a fire emergency? Published by JB Lippincott.

  • Understanding Your Medications - Award Winner 1988 AJN Media Festival. Reviewed in The American Journal of Nursing Division of Education Publishers, New York. Patient Education video on understanding medications prescribed in a hospital setting. Published by St Joseph Mercy Hospital, Mercy Health Services.

  • Discharge Planning... Whose Job Is It? - Published by The American Journal of Nursing Division of Education Publishers, New York. This program is designed to assist nurses to achieve the attitudes and skills needed to do effective and efficient discharge planning
  • Silently, Lovingly, preparing for your child's birth. - 26 Min. Birth information for hearing impaired parents. The video follows a hearing impaired couple from the second trimester through the birth of their child. Published by St Joseph Mercy Hospital, Mercy Health Services. Still available from Rochester Institute of Technology.


In addition to these published video's I have produced, directed and edited over 100 other in-house medical training videos, ranging from Emergency Room procedures, DRG's, nursing practices, medical autopsies, birth and delivery, laprascopic procedures, clinical trials for the Gazayerli line of laprascopic instrumentation for laprascopic approach in inguinal hernia, hiatal hernia, Nissen, Toupet, and Dor fundoplication, choledochoduodenal anastomosis as well as esophagogastroyplasty for esophageal stricture.


February 1977 to December 1993
Video Coordinator, Mercy Health Services, International, St. Joseph Mercy, Pontiac, Michigan.
Production/direction and editing of all medical, corporate training and PR productions at the senior corporate level for a multi-facility medical hospital chain. Also responsible for a three person video media department.

Legal and medical training and documentation video production at all levels of care. Produced and directed advertising material, projects for re-sale and internal use. Projects marketed through Lippincot. The 1993 total video sales was over $450,000.00.

Supervision of studio facilities, NewTek Video Toaster 4.0 w/Flier and technical crew. Operation of satellite down-link, CCTV systems and supervision of up-link productions. Responsible for all purchasing, budget and management of video unit.

Responsible for in-house production facility and editing suite, including capital budget purchases, staff management and training, equipment maintenance and scheduling.

Medical ideography and photography trained. Universal Precautions certified. Trained in medical terminology. I have taped and edited many types of surgery including open heart, joint replacement and craniotomy Also video documentation of Dr. Gazayerli instruments for laprascopic surgery, for clinical trials. M.M. Mounir Gazayerli, M.D., F.R.C.S.(C)Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (Canada) Fellow of the International College of Surgeons (US)

Jim Sawyer

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E-mail me at - jimsawyereditor@gmail.com

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