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Individualized Deliberate Practice on a Virtual Reality Simulator

NCT01753947 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 16

Last updated 2012-12-20

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Training on simulated models in a surgical skills laboratory has been shown to improve technical performance in the operating room. Currently described simulation-based curricula consist of trainees practicing the same tasks until expert proficiency is reached. It has yet to be investigated whether individualized deliberate practice, where curricula tasks vary depending on prior levels of technical proficiency, would translate to the operating room.

This randomized controlled trial effectively demonstrates that deliberate practice on a virtual reality simulator results in an improvement in technical skills in a real clinical situation. This enhances the feasibility of implementing simulation-based curricula into residency training programs, and consequently has the potential to improve patient safety.

Conditions

  • Education
  • General Surgery

Interventions

OTHER

Deliberate Practice

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada

    collaborator OTHER

  • Unity Health Toronto

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-01-31
Primary Completion
2011-01-31
Completion
2011-01-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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