Learning Curve of Digital Rectal Examination for Prostate Cancer Among Internship

Naval Military Medical University

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia

Prostatic Neoplasms

Digital Rectal Examination

Treatments

Behavioral: Routine review of DRE results by attending doctors

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03479359

CH-Urology-DRE-001

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators conduct this prospective study to investigate the learning curve of digital rectal examination (DRE) for prostate cancer among internship. The investigators want to know how many DRE are usually needed for internship to be performed in urological practice to obtain a stable DRE accuracy.

Full description

Digital rectal examination (DRE) is a basic physical examination in routine practice in Urology. The DRE is a very important daily practice for screen prostate cancer, and each internship in Urology is required to perform this for patients suspected of prostate cancer or benign prostate hyperplasia. However, how many DRE are usually needed for a internship to perform so as to obtain a stable accuracy in daily practice is currently unknown. The investigators thus conduct this prospective trial to investigate the learning curve of DRE among internship.

Enrollment

700 estimated patients

Sex

Male

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Internship just graduate from the medical school, and agree to attend the study.
Internship have less than 5 DREs of prostate cancer.
Patients of any age who are included for prostate biopsy are eligible, the indications for prostate biopsy are as follows: PSA>4ng/ml, fPSA/tPSA<0.16, with suspected palpable nodes in the prostate by DRE of attending doctor, suspected mass in prostate detected by ultrasound examination, magnetic resonance imaging, or computed tomography.

Exclusion criteria