Operating Room Outcomes After Resident Training on a Virtual Reality Simulator

Columbia University

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Gall Bladder Disease

Treatments: Behavioral: laparoscopic training curriculum

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00459472

AAAA9177

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to compare outcomes of patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy before and after a laparoscopic training curriculum was implemented.

Full description

All general surgery interns and PGY-2's AND PGY 3's will be enrolled in a laparoscopic surgery training curriculum that includes practicing surgical skills on a laparoscopic simulator. The PI has constructed an examination on the simulator that will document a significant level of laparoscopic skill. Each general surgery intern, second, AND THIRD year general surgery resident will be required to pass this examination on the simulator prior to being given more responsibility during cases of laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Specifically, interns, second, AND THIRD year residents must pass the examination on the simulator before they are allowed to function as primary surgeon in a supervised setting during laparoscopic cholecystectomy. These interns, PGY-2's, AND PGY 3'S would then be allowed to function as primary surgeon under the supervision of an attending surgery for laparoscopic cholecystectomy cases. The outcomes of these cases would be compared to a matched group of laparoscopic cholecystectomy cases performed by second year general surgery residents in the same supervised environment (but without having trained on the simulator) one year prior.

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• General Surgery residents at NewYork Hospital/Columbia in PGY 1, 2, or 3.

Exclusion criteria

• persons who are not General Surgery residents at NewYork Hospital/Columbia in PGY 1, 2, or 3.

Trial design

100 participants in 1 patient group

Training

Other group

Description:

laparoscopic training curriculum: all general surgery interns and PGY-2-5's already participate in a surgery training curriculum that includes lectures, surgery, laparoscopic training, attending surgeons evaluating performance of residents at the end of surgical procedures, written tests, and skills tests.

Treatment:

Behavioral: laparoscopic training curriculum