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Optimizing Resource Utilization During Proficiency-based Training of Suturing Skills to Medical Students

NCT03650959 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 44

Last updated 2024-09-27

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Summary

Evidence favours teaching procedural skills to medical students using a proficiency-based rather than time-based approach. Basic suturing skills can be taught through faculty-led, peer tutor-led, and computer augmented approaches. One method has yet to be identified as superior in terms of educational outcomes, resource utilization, and participant perspectives.

Pre-clerkship medical students were randomized to: faculty, peer tutor, or computer augmented learning. Participants practiced suturing through their randomized method until they reached targeted proficiency defined using hand motion analysis (HMA). Proficiency was defined as a score of the average plus a standard deviation of five surgeons' HMA for two of three consecutive sutures using appropriate technique.

The primary outcome was the number of stitches placed to achieve proficiency. The secondary outcomes were the number of sutures used, time, and costs incurred. Learning curves were constructed. Participants' perceptions were assessed using a follow-up survey.

Conditions

  • Education, Medical
  • Sutures

Interventions

OTHER

Method of learning simple interrupted sutures with instrument tie

Students will train to proficiency (defined by hand motion analysis) on simple interrupted sutures with an instrument tie via one of three different methods: faculty-led, peer tutor-led, or computer augmented self-directed learning.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Queen's University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-06-04
Primary Completion
2019-06-16
Completion
2019-06-16

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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