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Developing a Curriculum to Teach Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery

NCT01371136 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 25

Last updated 2015-11-17

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Although a significant amount of work has been done to validate simulators as viable systems to teach technical skills outside the operating room, the next necessary step is to integrate simulator training into a comprehensive curriculum. The purpose of this study is to develop and validate a comprehensive ex-vivo curriculum for laparoscopic colorectal surgery. This curriculum will include training on a virtual reality simulator, cognitive training and cadaver lab training. The investigators will assess the effectiveness of the curriculum by conducting a randomized single blinded controlled trial. The investigators will be comparing the technical performance of curricular trained and non-trained residents in the operating room, during a procedure on a patient. The investigators hypothesize that surgical residents who participate in the curriculum will have superior technical proficiency and cognitive knowledge relating to performing laparoscopic colorectal surgery compared to conventionally trained residents.

Conditions

  • Education
  • Simulation
  • Technical Skills Training
  • Laparoscopy

Interventions

PROCEDURE

curricular training

Residents in the curricular training group will participate in the entire ex-vivo training curriculum. They will train to proficiency on a virtual reality simulator. This training program has 8 tasks at an "easy", "medium" and "hard" level. They will also participate in a cognitive training component. This consists of self-directed reading, and a video training component. In the video training component, residents will watch videos of laparoscopic right and sigmoid colectomies with a staff facilitator. Finally, all residents in the intervention group will participate in a cadaver lab where they will perform a laparoscopic right or sigmoid colectomy on a cadaver.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada

    collaborator OTHER

  • Unity Health Toronto

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Teodor P Grantcharov, MD, PhD · Unity Health Toronto

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
SINGLE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-06-30
Primary Completion
2011-05-31
Completion
2011-05-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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