Mental Visualization as a Learning Tool in Anesthesia

University Grenoble Alps

Status: Completed

Conditions: Medical Education; Anesthesia

Treatments: Other: Mental visualization

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04159389

CESAR002

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the benefit of adding mental visualization to a training program in medical education. Undergraduate medical students will be randomized before participating in a training program on airway management during rapid sequence induction. In the control group, participants will receive traditional teaching including theoretical courses and procedural simulation. In the intervention group, in addition to traditional teaching, participants will be trained and encouraged to practice mental visualization. The main outcome will be clinical performance during a standardized high-fidelity simulation of rapid sequence induction assessed using a specific pre-established checklist.

Enrollment: 24 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Undergraduate medical students from the Grenoble Alps university hospital
• From the 2nd to the 6th year
• Volontary

Exclusion criteria

• /

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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24 participants in 2 patient groups

traditional teaching

No Intervention group

Description:

theoretical courses and procedural simulation on airway management during rapid sequence induction

Mental visualization

Experimental group

Description:

traditional teaching completed by mental visualization : theoretical courses and procedural simulation on airway management during rapid sequence induction + mental visualization (theoretical courses, audioguide for individual practice and experience sharing session)

Treatment:

Other: Mental visualization