Traditional Versus Virtual Reality for Surgical Skills for ObGyn Residents (SIMUTEC)

Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Gynecologic Disease

Treatments: Behavioral: Virtual Reality+conventional training; Behavioral: Conventional training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03395821

17-0365

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will verify if a comprehensive laparoscopic curriculum using virtual reality demonstrates skills transfer to the operating room, compared to the traditional teaching method.

Full description

Second-year residents from different programs of residency in obstetrics and gynecology in Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, will be invited to participate in this study. they will be randomized to receive a comprehensive training in laparoscopy using modern virtual reality program or the traditional method of training according to their residency program. After 12 weeks of training, they will finish their training and they will perform advanced laparoscopic surgery in the simulator according to their specific needs, for example, salpingectomy, oophorectomy advanced laparoscopic suture or hysterectomy. Data generated from the simulator program will be compared between groups.

Enrollment: 24 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 24+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• residents in obstetrics and gynecology that are about to finish their second-year program

Exclusion criteria

• refuse to participate

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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24 participants in 2 patient groups

Conventional training

Active Comparator group

Description:

Residents will receive the traditional training for laparoscopic surgery according to their residency program.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Conventional training

Virtual Reality+conventional training

Experimental group

Description:

Residents will receive 12 weeks of virtual training for laparoscopy and their traditional training for laparoscopic surgery according to their residency program.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Virtual Reality+conventional training