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NCT03650959
Optimizing Resource Utilization During Proficiency-based Training of Suturing Skills to Medical Students
NA trial testing Method of learning simple interrupted sutures with instrument tie in Education, Medical in 44 participants. Completed in 16 June 2019.
16 June 2019
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | Queen's University |
|---|---|
| Phase | NA |
| Status | Completed |
| Study type | INTERVENTIONAL |
| Allocation | randomized |
| Design | parallel |
| Masking | none |
| Primary purpose | other |
| Enrollment | 44 |
| Start date | 4 June 2018 |
| Primary completion | 16 June 2019 |
| Estimated completion | 16 June 2019 |
| Sites | 1 location across Canada |
Drugs / interventions tested
- Method of learning simple interrupted sutures with instrument tie
Conditions studied
- Education, Medical — all drugs for Education, Medical →
- Sutures — all drugs for Sutures →
Sponsor
Queen's University
Who can join
Eligibility, any sex, with Education, Medical or Sutures. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.
Sponsor's own description
Evidence favours teaching procedural skills to medical students using a proficiency-based rather than time-based approach. Basic suturing skills can be taught through faculty-led, peer tutor-led, and computer augmented approaches. One method has yet to be identified as superior in terms of educational outcomes, resource utilization, and participant perspectives. Pre-clerkship medical students were randomized to: faculty, peer tutor, or computer augmented learning. Participants practiced suturing through their randomized method until they reached targeted proficiency defined using hand motion analysis (HMA). Proficiency was defined as a score of the average plus a standard deviation of five surgeons' HMA for two of three consecutive sutures using appropriate technique. The primary outcome was the number of stitches placed to achieve proficiency. The secondary outcomes were the number of sutures used, time, and costs incurred. Learning curves were constructed. Participants' perceptions were assessed using a follow-up survey.
Publications & conference data
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- Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03650959 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
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- Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by Queen's University
- Last refreshed: 27 September 2024
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