Simulator Training for Direct Ophthalmoscopy

University Hospital Tuebingen

Status: Completed

Conditions: Simulator-based Medical Skill Training

Treatments: Device: Simulator-based Training of Direct Ophthalmoscopy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04157023

Simulator

Details and patient eligibility

About

Evaluation of a digital simulator to train diagnostic skills in Ophthalmology

Full description

Direct Ophthalmoscopy is an important tool to detect pathologies e.g. on the optic nerve head. The training of the needed skills is made conventionally in most cases. In such the training sessions students examine each other after dilating one pupil. Examining of patients with pathologies is very important, but in many cases not very easy without any experience.

Simulators are of growing impact to teach diagnostic or surgical skills. A digital simulator with virtual reality technology is used to teach the skills to unexperienced examiners. The head-eye-hand-coordination can be trained without any stress.

Enrollment: 78 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Medical student or Ophthalmologist or Neonatologist or Neurologist or Neurosurgeon
• Willing to participate to the study
• Consent to evaluate the measured data

Exclusion criteria

• age <18 years

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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78 participants in 3 patient groups

Medical Students

Other group

Description:

Simulator training of 7 patient cases adapted to medical students.

Treatment:

Device: Simulator-based Training of Direct Ophthalmoscopy

Ophthalmologist

Other group

Description:

Simulator training of 7 patient cases adapted to ophthalmologists.

Treatment:

Device: Simulator-based Training of Direct Ophthalmoscopy

Neurologist/Neurosurgeon/Neonatologist

Other group

Description:

Simulator training of 7 patient cases adapted to neurologists, neurosurgeons and neonatologists.

Treatment:

Device: Simulator-based Training of Direct Ophthalmoscopy