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Trial of Proficiency- Based Simulation Training for General Surgical Trainees

NCT00712387 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 24

Last updated 2009-02-24

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The hypothesis of this trial is to demonstrate that training junior surgeons on a virtual reality (VR) simulator in addition to didactic teaching will improve their intraoperative performance compared to those trainees who receive the traditional teaching paradigm (i.e, operating under the guidance and instruction of a consultant general surgeon).

We anticipate that the VR trained group will make less critical intraoperative errors and will perform faster than their traditionally trained colleagues.

Other study questions include:

1. Does objective assessment of fundamental abilities (FA) such as visuo-spatial ability predict intra-operative performance?
2. Do FA predict rate of learning to reach proficiency?

Conditions

  • Education
  • Training
  • Computer Simulation

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

LapSim simulator

Group B will be required to train on the LapSim simulator until they reach predefined levels of proficiency

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Health Service Executive

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Professor Anthony Gallagher, PhD · National Surgical Training Centre, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
27 Years
Max Age
45 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-07-31
Primary Completion
2009-07-31
Completion
2009-07-31

Countries

  • Ireland

Study Locations

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