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Simulation-based Training of Operating Assistants: Procedure- Versus Camera Navigation Training

NCT02530099 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 36

Last updated 2016-04-06

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Often the less experienced as medical students are charged with the role as camera navigator and assistant during laparoscopic surgery. Camera navigation is generally considered an easy skill, but it requires specific psychomotor and visuospatial skills. Simulation-based training can improve surgical skills, but little is known on how to optimally structure a training program to acquire camera navigation skills. The objective of this trial is to examine if simulation-based laparoscopic camera navigation skills transfer to the operating room after practicing one of two fundamentally different laparoscopic tasks on a simulator. The first group practice a procedure on a virtual reality simulator, the second group practice camera navigation on a virtual reality simulator and the third group receive no training. All participants are tested as camera navigators and assistants during a procedure in the operating room.

Conditions

  • Laparoscopic Simulation Training

Interventions

PROCEDURE

CN-group

Time limited simulation based training on camera navigation tasks on a virtual reality-simulator.

PROCEDURE

Procedure-group

Time limited simulation based training on laparoscopic procedure on a virtual reality-simulator.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Rigshospitalet, Denmark

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
NONE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-09-30
Primary Completion
2015-11-30
Completion
2015-12-31

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