How Should Surgical Residents Be Educated About Patient Safety

The University of Texas System (UT)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Patient Safety; Surgical Resident; Educational Safety Curriculum; Medical Education

Treatments: Behavioral: Formal safety curriculum; Behavioral: Ongoing evaluation and feedback; Behavioral: Education - BIPS course

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02401711

HSC-MS-14-0073

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to compare the effectiveness of two methods, safety curriculum in addition to online training alone, for teaching patient safety to surgery residents. Despite multiple studies evaluating educational safety curricula, the best methods for teaching residents about patient safety is unknown. It is hypothesized that empowering surgery residents to actively engage in behaviors to increase patient safety may lead to a higher quality perioperative care and communication.

Enrollment: 58 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 40 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All surgery residents at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, from post-graduate year (PGY)-1 to PGY-5.

Exclusion criteria

• Non-surgery residents at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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58 participants in 2 patient groups

Online training

Active Comparator group

Description:

Residents randomized to the control group will only participate in the Breakthroughs in Patient Safety (BIPS) online training (Education - BIPS course). All residents in the comparison arm will receive evaluations on their non-technical skills, but the results will not be fed back to them until after the study has been completed.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Education - BIPS course

Online training & Safety curriculum & Evaluation and feedback

Experimental group

Description:

Those in the intervention group will participate in a formal safety education curriculum in addition to the currently required Breakthroughs in Patient Safety (BIPS) online training. The intervention will have three components: (1) the mandatory online BIPS course (Education - BIPS course), (2) the formal safety curriculum, and (3) ongoing evaluation and feedback of operating room performance.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Formal safety curriculum

Behavioral: Ongoing evaluation and feedback

Behavioral: Education - BIPS course