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Laparoscopic Simulator Training and Its Impact on Surgical Education

NCT00555243 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 108

Last updated 2013-01-21

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The primary goal of this study is to answer whether validated laparoscopic simulators truly affect real time performance in the operating room among Gynecology residents.

Conditions

  • Surgical Procedure, Unspecified
  • Surgical Simulation

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Laparoscopic Simulation training

five 30-minute faculty-directed sessions at the Laparoscopic Simulator Lab

PROCEDURE

Traditional Surgical Education

Traditional surgical teaching (no simulator)

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Ochsner Health System

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Alabama at Birmingham

    collaborator OTHER

  • The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston

    collaborator OTHER

  • Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

    collaborator FED

  • Orlando Health, Inc.

    collaborator OTHER

  • Virginia Commonwealth University

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Rajiv B Gala, MD · University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2005-08-31
Primary Completion
2011-01-31
Completion
2011-01-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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