Rapid Assessment of Trainee Endoscopy Skills (RATES) Study

Summary

The establishment of a number of training programs in therapeutic endoscopy, standardization of the performance of endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) and endoscopy retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) and definition of competence is of paramount importance. The length of training and minimum number of procedures, requisite theoretical learning and methodology to define competence in EUS and ERCP are not well defined. The investigators research has demonstrated that individuals in training acquire skills at different rates and the number of procedures completed alone is a suboptimal marker for competency in a given procedure. Hence, emphasis needs to be shifted away from the number of procedures performed to performance metrics with well-defined and validated thresholds of performance. Multicenter prospective data are needed to help guide development of competency based medical education that define learning curves in EUS and ERCP and set evidence-based benchmarks required to achieve competence using a validated competency assessment tool.

Hypothesis: The central hypothesis is that a validated EUS and ERCP competency assessment tool will allow for reliable and generalizable standardized learning curves, competency benchmarks and creation of a centralized national database that compares a trainee's performance amongst peers.

Conditions

• Competency-Based Education

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Harvard Medical School (HMS and HSDM)

  collaborator OTHER

• Brigham and Women's Hospital

  collaborator OTHER

• Carolinas Medical Center

  collaborator OTHER

• Columbia University

  collaborator OTHER

• Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

  collaborator OTHER

• Virginia Mason Hospital/Medical Center

  collaborator OTHER

• Geisinger Clinic

  collaborator OTHER

• Henry Ford Hospital

  collaborator OTHER

• Indiana University

  collaborator OTHER

• Johns Hopkins University

  collaborator OTHER

• Mayo Clinic

  collaborator OTHER

• H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute

  collaborator OTHER

• Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

  collaborator OTHER

• New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital

  collaborator OTHER

• Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

  collaborator OTHER

• The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston

  collaborator OTHER

• University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

  collaborator OTHER

• Fox Chase Cancer Center

  collaborator OTHER

• University of California, Los Angeles

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Kansas Medical Center

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Texas

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Virginia

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Wisconsin, Madison

  collaborator OTHER

• Vanderbilt University Medical Center

  collaborator OTHER

• Washington University School of Medicine

  collaborator OTHER

• Ohio State University

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Colorado, Denver

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Sachin Wani, MD · University of Colorado, Denver

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

85 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2014-07-31

Primary Completion

2015-11-30

Completion

2016-11-30