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Group Dynamics in Surgical Skill Training

NCT02895685 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 80

Last updated 2016-09-12

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The investigators have planned a randomized study, examining the effect of self-directed training in groups vs. individual training on trainees' acquisitions of open surgical skills.

Eighty participants who signed up for a pre-existing simulation-based course in basic open surgical skills will be randomized to practice either in pairs or individually during the course. Participants open surgical skills will be tested on a simulated skin model before and after the course. The investigators hypothesis is that dyad training will enhance self-directed learning in open surgical skills.

Conditions

  • Technical Skills Training

Interventions

OTHER

Dyad training

Participants will be paired in teams at the introduction. Participants will be instructed to train and supervise each other in pairs and will receive information on how to give constructive feedback. Participants will practice in pairs during on-site classes and encouraged to train in pairs during the self-regulated training at home. At the on-site classes, participants will be instructed to practice with their partner, during the expert-guided self-training and receive all feedback in pairs. Participants will train at the same table with space for two people. Outside the classroom, participants will decide themselves when and how often they will meet to practise. Participants are instructed to actively observe his or her partner while practising and are encouraged to discuss their performance and any difficulties they encounter. Testing will be done individually. With the training log, the investigators will measure whether the participants train in pairs at home as instructed.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Danish Council for Independent Research

    collaborator OTHER

  • Johnson & Johnson

    collaborator INDUSTRY

  • Copenhagen Academy for Medical Education and Simulation

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-08-31
Primary Completion
2017-07-31
Completion
2017-08-31

Countries

  • Denmark

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