Surgical Ergonomics Education During Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Skills Training

Summary

The goal of this pilot study is to learn if a class and hands-on-practice of ergonomic body positions - or specific ways to move the body while working to prevent injury - is valuable to training obstetrics and gynecology doctors. The main questions the study team aims to answer are:

* Will these lessons successfully teach the participants how to move bodies at work in a way that will prevent injury?
* Will the participants feel that learning and practicing such lessons helps to avoid injury while at work?

Researchers will compare training obstetrics and gynecology doctors that attend a class on ergonomics and have guided hands-on-practice of ergonomic body positions with training obstetrics and gynecology doctors that attend the class only to see if the first group learns and remembers how to move their bodies safely while working. All participants will attend a class that teaches basic ergonomic lessons before they are divided into two groups. Group 1 will practice common surgery skills on a model while being videotaped by an artificial intelligence application. The application will make a report on unsafe positions a participant does while practicing surgical skills. The Group 1 participant will then go over the report with one of the study supervisors to talk about ways that the participant can move safely while practicing the skills. The participant will then practice the skills one more time while being videotaped. The study supervisors will then compare the two reports to see if the participant improved.

Group 2 will also practice common surgery skills on a model while being videotaped. Group 2 participants will not get to see the report that the application generates or speak with the study supervisors about ways to move safely while practicing the skills.

There will be a follow up after two months to see if participants remembered what was learned during the class and during the hands-on practice lesson. All participants will again be videotaped. The study supervisors will compare the videos and reports from the last class to the most recent ones to see if the participants learned and remember how to move safely while working.

Participants in both groups will take a quiz about the lessons learned in the class before and after the class to determine what had been learned from the lesson. A survey about how useful and helpful the class was and hands-on practice sessions were will also be completed.

Conditions

• Work-related Injury
• Work Related Upper Limb Disorder
• Surgery
• Educational Problems

Interventions

OTHER

Ergonomics Knowledge

Participants will participate in a lecture/module on surgical ergonomics

OTHER

Ergonomics Feedback/Guided Practice

Participants will practice minimally invasive surgical skills while receiving feedback on ergonomic positioning/practice

Sponsors & Collaborators

• TuMeke Ergonomics

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Montefiore Medical Center

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Kari Plewniak, MD · Montefiore Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

OTHER

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

20 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2024-12-01

Primary Completion

2025-05-22

Completion

2025-05-22

Countries

• United States

Study Locations