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A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Robotic Simulation Curriculum to Teach Robotic Suturing

NCT01811095 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 27

Last updated 2013-09-12

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The aim of this study is to determine if training with a robotic simulator improves ability to perform robotic suturing. We aim to recruit 38 participants (attending surgeons or residents in obstetrics and gynecology, urology, general surgery, or cardiac surgery). Participants will be randomized to training with a virtual reality robotic simulator in addition to clinical work or to usual clinical work alone for a period of 5 weeks. They will be tested at baseline and post-intervention in the task of suturing a inanimate model with the actual surgical robot. After the initial study period, the control group will have the opportunity to cross over and complete the training and then re-testing.

Conditions

  • Neoplasms

Interventions

OTHER

Training

Training with the da Vinci® Skills Simulator to complete a proficiency-based curriculum in 6 simulator exercises relevant to robotic suturing over a 5-week period. We will ask participants in the training group to aim to complete the exercises Camera targeting 1, Camera targeting 2, Suture sponge 1, Suture sponge 2,and Suture sponge 3 to the target score (overall score green checkmark and all component scores to the level of yellow triangle or green checkmark, equivalent to a "completed score") on two non-consecutive attempts. For the "Suturing skills (SymbionixTM): Horizontal suturing defect" task, the scoring is different. For this task, we have elected to ask participants to aim to complete the task ten times,rather than to achieve a certain target score.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Daniel J Kiely, MDCM FRCSC · McGill University

  • Joshua Z Press, MD MSc FRCSC · McGill University, Jewish General Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
SINGLE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-03-31
Primary Completion
2013-06-30
Completion
2013-06-30

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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