Learning to Palpate the Child's Testicles Using Simulation (PaTenSim)

University Hospital, Angers

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Cryptorchidism; Testicular Positioning Anomalies

Treatments: Procedure: testicular palpation training on a mannequin

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07106502

49RC24_0256

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 62 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Medical student who volunteers to take part in the study during their pediatric or pediatric surgery clerkship or at the simulation center

Exclusion criteria

• student non in pediatric intership or non in pediatric surgery intership or non at the simulation center intership
• Student with previous simulation training in the examination of the external genitalia of children

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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62 participants in 2 patient groups

Control group

No Intervention group

mannequin simulation-based learning group

Experimental group

Treatment:

Procedure: testicular palpation training on a mannequin