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Creating a Proficiency-Based Virtual Reality Simulation Training Programme for Laparoscopic Assisted Colectomy

NCT00752817 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 16

Last updated 2008-10-07

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Laparoscopic Colectomy is an advanced minimally invasive procedure that requires advanced laparoscopic skills.

Minimally invasive surgery offers many advantages to the patients but exposes the surgeon to new challenges, many of which are human factor in nature. This in turn prolongs the learning curve and has delayed the widespread adoption of minimally invasive surgical techniques in the management of patients with colorectal disease.

Virtual reality simulation offers an effective way of training whereby surgical trainees can train repeatedly and achieve proficiency in a shorter time and a safe environment.

Conditions

  • Colorectal Disease

Interventions

OTHER

Proficiency-based virtual reality simulation training

Subjects (surgical trainees) will be trained under a proficiency-based virtual reality simulation training programme before performing their first live case

OTHER

Training under the current surgical training programme

Subjects (surgical trainees) will continue to train under the current training methodology offered at their institution before they perform their first live case.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Health Service Executive

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Paul Neary, MD, FRCSI · Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-09-30
Primary Completion
2009-06-30
Completion
2009-09-30

Countries

  • Ireland
  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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