Reforming Pediatric Procedural Training

Boston Children's Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy; Health Personnel

Treatments: Other: Formal Curriculum; Low-Fidelity Simulation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00115596

CH 05-05-040

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is randomized trial of a procedural skills training curriculum utilizing simulation to teach basic procedural skills to pediatric residents.

Full description

This study is designed to evaluate a formal curriculum for teaching basic procedures to pediatric interns at Children's Hospital, Boston. The incoming class of interns for the academic year '05-06 will be randomly assigned to participate in the curriculum or not. Four procedures including intravenous catheter insertion, venipuncture (blood drawing), bag-and-mask ventilation, and lumbar puncture (spinal tap) will be taught. Interns will then be tested on their ability to perform these skills on anatomic models and on live patients. Our hypothesis is that interns receiving the formal curriculum will be more confident and more successful in performing these procedures than those who do not.

Enrollment: 38 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Pediatric Intern in the Boston Combined Residency Program for AY '05-'06

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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38 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention Arm

Experimental group

Description:

'Formal Curriculum; Low-Fidelity Simulation' Residents randomized to the intervention arm will receive the study skills training curriculum (the intervention).

Treatment:

Other: Formal Curriculum; Low-Fidelity Simulation

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Residents randomized to the control arm will receive standard pediatric training.