Psychological Assessment and Skills Training by Simulation in Neurosurgery (PASSION)

Fondazione I.R.C.C.S. Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta

Status: Completed

Conditions: 300 Students of University of Milan School of Medicine

Treatments: Other: Simulation training to evaluate the participants' manual skill improvement

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06792669

20150317

Details and patient eligibility

About

The subject of Safety in Health is assuming in time a predominant position with those of high social, economic and political relevance. Numerous medical-surgical procedures are frequently learned as they are performed directly on the patient. The scope of our research, hence, is to recruit 5th- and 6th-year students of Medicine of the University of Milan who will have the opportunity to use two state-of-the-art 3-D virtual reality neurosurgical simulators at the Besta NeuroSim Center. Psychological Evaluation instruments will be used in order to select the personality profile most fit for a career in neurosurgery and to understand what training method is the most appropriate to achieve the best results in neurosurgery.

Enrollment: 300 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 30 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 5th - 6th year medical students.
• Signed informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

• Medical students with any previous surgical experience or simulation training (mechanical, PC-based and/or others).

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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300 participants in 1 patient group

Neurosimulation training

Experimental group

Description:

Psychological tests will be administered to the participants aiming at analyzing the psychological profile, the visual-spatial skills, and the manual skills of the medical students. 60 students (under the 10% and over 90% at the tests) - out of a total of 300 students recruited - will be asked to perform 2 medical-surgical tasks (performing an apple debulking by means of a surgical ultrasonic aspirator at the operative microscope and a lumbar puncture on a dedicated manikin); performances will be recorded and rated by experts surgeons. Participants will then perform a microsurgery-training program, by means of specific neurosurgical simulators (Immersive Touch and NeuroTouch) for a defined period of time. Their performances will be recorded and rated by the simulators automatically. After the end of the simulation training program, students will repeat the tasks at the operative microscope and at lumbar puncture manikin, in order to evaluate and quantify their manual skill improvement

Treatment:

Other: Simulation training to evaluate the participants' manual skill improvement