Standardized Criteria to Judge Diagnostic Urethrocystoscopy Skills

University of Cincinnati

Status: Completed

Conditions: Urethrocystoscopy Skills

Treatments: Other: educational workshop; Other: no intervention (usual resident activities)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00631761

Cystoscopy Project

Details and patient eligibility

About

Develop a tool to objectively quantify technical skills necessary to perform diagnostic cystoscopy (using Objective Structured Assessment of Technical Skills- OSATS).

Develop criteria by which surgeons skills in diagnostic cystoscopy can be evaluated or judged.

Develop an intervention (1.5 hour workshop) which can be replicated by other residency programs in order to enhance learning of diagnostic cystoscopy. The workshop should be adequate for practicing Gynecologists as well as they already have experience with diagnostic hysteroscopy which uses many of the same concepts.

Full description

The OSATS and a written examination will be used to assess residents skills and knowledge pertinent to diagnostic urethrocystoscopy. All residents will be tested on anatomic replica of human bladder for baseline competency using the above tools. Then approximately half will be randomly selected to undergo an educational intervention (a workshop teaching diagnostic urethrocystoscopy). As we are interested in short-term acquisition, about a week later all residents will be retested using the same methods. Grades on the exam will be kept confidential.

Enrollment: 36 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 50 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All Obstetrics & Gynecology and Urology resident physicians training at the University of Cincinnati

Exclusion criteria

• Any above resident with extensive training in cystoscopy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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36 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

1

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention group will view a 20 minute video, receive a 30 minute didactic lecture on urethrocystoscopy, and 30 minute coaching/practice performing diagnostic cystoscopy on anatomic replicas of the human bladder.

Treatment:

Other: educational workshop

2

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

The control group will be instructed to read a urethrocystoscopy textbook chapter at home

Treatment:

Other: no intervention (usual resident activities)