Video Coaching as an Efficient Teaching Method for Surgical Residents

Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy

Treatments: Behavioral: Video coaching session

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02529254

Surgery video coaching 15006

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine if video coaching is an efficient way of teaching surgical skills outside of the operating room for surgical residents.

Full description

Coaching relates to a cooperative process between a coach and a coachee, which includes "providing objective and constructive feedback to help a [coachee] recognize what works and what can be improved.

In our study the investigators will be filming general surgery residents while making a side to side anastomosis on a dog's cadaveric small bowel. Half of the participants will be randomized in the intervention group and will take part in a half hour coaching session with a surgeon. In this coaching session both resident and surgeon will watch the resident's filmed anastomosis and constructive feedback will be given by the surgeon. An inanimate model of bowel anastomosis will be available at the moment of the coaching to allow the surgeon to demonstrate the desired improvements.

Once all the residents in the intervention group will have completed their coaching session, both control and intervention group will be filmed making a second side to side anastomosis.

All the video taken will then be pooled in a random order. A blinded surgeon will then analyse each video taken with the objective structured assessment of technical skills (OSATS) tool.

The hypothesis is that the residents who received an half-hour coaching session will have significantly improved their OSATS score compared to the control group between the first and second anastomosis.

Enrollment: 28 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Residents from PGY-1 to PGY-4 in general surgery at Université de Montreal

Exclusion criteria

• PGY-5 in general surgery at université de Montreal ( because they are studying for their Board exams )
• Did no sing consent form

Trial design

28 participants in 2 patient groups

Video coaching

Experimental group

Description:

14 residents in general surgery from PGY-1(post graduate year-1) to PGY-4 Block randomized to the intervention group who will receive a 30 minute video coaching session as the intervention

Treatment:

Behavioral: Video coaching session

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

14 residents in general surgery from PGY-1 to PGY-4 block randomized to the control group