Trial on Laparoscopic Simulation Based on Mentoring

Università degli Studi di Brescia

Status: Completed

Conditions: Performance of Wrong Procedure (Operation)

Treatments: Other: Self-learning; Other: Mentoring

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02486575

TUTOR LAP SYM

Details and patient eligibility

About

More than 50 residents in surgical specialities (OB&G, General surgery and Urology) from a single university in Italy will be randomized into two groups, after a stratification based on residency year and laparoscopic/simulator experience. The first one will train to FLS (fundamentals of laparoscopic surgery) following pre-recorded instruction from course materials; the second one will be mentored by a proctor in single training section. The aim is to evaluate the best way to train residents applying for the very first time in an extensive way the "fundamentals of laparoscopic surgery" program in an Italian Institution.

Full description

A complete 5-skills based FLS (fundamentals of laparoscopic surgery) curriculum is proposed to each resident enrolled in the trial. The first group trains with videos and written instructions, without any kind of support from a tutor. The second group is aided by a tutor, receiving tailored teaching and mentoring.

The primary goal was to asses the impact of tutoring in Passing the FLS examination at the end of a 3-months training: the outcome is the dichotomous PASS/DON'T PASS THE EXAM. At the same time the investigators assess the performance to record and evaluate any differences in groups and subgroups (year of residency, gender, specialty, etc.).

The evaluation was based on FLS program standards, recording time and penalties.

The training and evaluation setting was created to exactly reproduce the FLS one, mostly using the FLS material itself, or using FLS admitted/compatible instrumentation.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 24 to 70 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Residents in surgical specialities at University of Brescia

Exclusion criteria

• Residents not available for the training (outside the Country, not interested, etc.)

Trial design

60 participants in 2 patient groups

self-learning

Other group

Description:

Residents training alone with pre-recorded instructions. No tutor intervention, only self-learning training Intervention Type: Behavioral (video-based and instruction based learning)

Treatment:

Other: Self-learning

Mentoring

Other group

Description:

Residents training with a mentor, giving tailored instruction to each of them and correction to wrong behaviours. Intervention Type: Behavioral (tutored learning)

Treatment:

Other: Mentoring