Impact of the Microsurgical Technique After a Theoretical-practical Course in Microsurgery

Hospital de Clinicas José de San Martín

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Microsurgery; Medical Training; Education

Treatments: Other: Training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04997720

1092-21

Details and patient eligibility

About

A single group study will be carried out in the Microsurgery Laboratory, Neurosurgery Department, Hospital de Clínicas, and the Center for Microsurgical Skills of the Argentine Association of Neurosurgery. The objective of the study is to evaluate the effect of theoretical-practical course learning in neurosurgery and plastic surgery residents.

Full description

Introduction: In the second half of the 20th century, the use of the surgical microscope became popular in neurosurgery. In the last twenty years, simulation has gained worldwide acceptance as a teaching tool in medicine, especially microsurgery. For this, various training models have been created.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of the theoretical-practical course learning in neurosurgery and plastic surgery residents.

Materials and methods: A single group study will be carried out in the Microsurgery Laboratory, Neurosurgery Department, Hospital de Clínicas, and the Center for Microsurgical Skills of the Argentine Association of Neurosurgery. Medical doctors of both genders will be included in the first three years of neurosurgical or plastic surgery training from any center in Argentina. The course will be theoretical-practical, lasting eight hours, divided into two meetings with a theoretical class and practical microsurgery exercises. It will be supervised by teachers microsurgery experienced. An Initial and final evaluation will be carried out and the scores obtained between both theoretical and practical evaluations will be compared. In the practical evaluations, the time and the SMART scale will be analyzed. Categorical variables will be reported as absolute and relative numbers. The normality of the data will be verified by the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. Continuous variables will be reported as mean and standard deviations or median and interquartile ranges. Student's t test, Mann-Whitney U test will be used to compare means, when appropriate, according to the distribution of variables. The categorical variables will be compared with the χ2 test.

Enrollment: 45 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Doctors in the first three years of neurosurgical training or plastic surgery in any center in Argentina.
• Both gender will be included without age limit.

Exclusion criteria

• Participants who do not complete the entire course will be excluded

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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45 participants in 1 patient group

Training

Other group

Description:

The course will be theoretical-practical, lasting eight hours, divided into two meetings with a theoretical class and practical exercises in microsurgery of increasing complexity. The course will also have an initial and final evaluation.

Treatment:

Other: Training