Video-based Learning for Basic Surgical Skills

Universidade do Porto

Status: Completed

Conditions: Teaching Basic Surgical Techniques

Treatments: Other: Teaching from videos

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06571903

VBSS

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a prospective randomized study, intended to evaluate the effectiveness of teaching basic surgical techniques through video, comparing the results with those of traditional teaching

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Students from the 1st to 3rd years of the Integrated Master's Degree in Medicine at the University of Porto,
• Able to participate in a course of basic surgical techniques (simple suturing, X-stitches, U-stitches and Donatti points)

Exclusion criteria

• Participants is to have had prior contact with techniques surgical and/or minor surgery,
• Participants had contact with techniques surgical and/or minor surgery in the period between recruitment and completion of the proposed learning

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

Traditional Learning

No Intervention group

Description:

Teaching with an expert tutor, in a in-person course

Video-based Learning

Experimental group

Description:

Teaching with videos for autonomous learning and practice

Treatment:

Other: Teaching from videos