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Learning to Palpate the Child's Testicles Using Simulation

NCT07106502 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 62

Last updated 2025-08-06

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Hypothesis is that better training of medical students in the examination of boy's external genitalia could improve the diagnosis of testicular position anomalies. To this end, investigators already have created a model to train testicle palpation and recognition of testicular position anomalies. So investigator set up a monocentric randomized controlled trial in wich the medical students will be randomized into 2 groups : a control group receiging only book-based theoretical instruction on the examination of the external genitalia and testicular position anomalies, and a mannequin group receibing, in addition to this conventionnal instruction, simulation training on the mannequin Medical students will then attend a consultation with a child whose reason for coming to the hospital is a testicular positioning anomaly. Students clinical examination will be scored by the consulting senior, and the final diagnosis retained by the student will be compared with that retained by the consulting senior. The aim is to show that medical students who have trained on this new model are better, in terms of clinical examination and diagnostic, than students in the control group.

Conditions

  • Testicular Positioning Anomalies
  • Cryptorchidism

Interventions

PROCEDURE

testicular palpation training on a mannequin

Study of testicular palpation training on a mannequin on the ability to perform a testicular examination and diagnose testicular positioning abnormalities

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Hospital, Angers

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Louise RENOULT · University Hospital of Angers

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-10-01
Primary Completion
2026-10-01
Completion
2026-10-01

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