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Reforming Pediatric Procedural Training

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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

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.

Trial contacts and locations

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