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Effect of Virtual Endoscopy Simulator Training on Real Patient Endoscopy

NCT00576043 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 24

Last updated 2008-03-27

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Summary

Trainees (Residents in internal medicine), naive to real patient endoscopy, will be randomized to receive either 3 weeks/2 hours per day of structured training for a total of 20 hours on the virtual endoscopy simulator GI-Mentor or no training before starting on-patient endoscopy in the University of Vienna Medical School Endoscopy Unit. Patients satisfaction and pain, technical accuracy and number of found/missed pathologies as well as average time for successful endoscopy will be recorded. After one month or 50 supervised, self performed endoscopies, trainees will be evaluated again with the above mentioned criteria during ten consecutive investigations.

Conditions

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Simulator Training

3 weeks/2 hours per day of structured training for a total of 20 hours on the virtual endoscopy simulator with the GI-Mentor Virtual simulator device

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Medical University of Vienna

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Arnulf Ferlitsch, MD · Medical University of Vienna

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2004-03-31
Primary Completion
2008-03-31
Completion
2008-03-31

Countries

  • Austria

Study Locations

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