NCT03684720: GDLEFFICACY

Using 'Guided-Discovery-Learning' to Optimize and Maximize Transfer of Surgical Simulation

Status unknown NA Last updated 6 February 2019

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Discover followed by direct instruction [DD] in Humans in 64 participants. Status unknown.

Timeline

2 October 2018

Primary endpoint
5 November 2018

31 July 2020

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Copenhagen Academy for Medical Education and Simulation
Phase	NA
Status	Status unknown
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	single
Primary purpose	other
Enrollment	64
Start date	2 October 2018
Primary completion	5 November 2018
Estimated completion	31 July 2020
Sites	1 location across Denmark

Drugs / interventions tested

• Discover followed by direct instruction [DD]

Conditions studied

• Humans — all drugs for Humans →
• Simulation Training — all drugs for Simulation Training →
• Problem-Based Learning — all drugs for Problem-Based Learning →
• Clinical Competence — all drugs for Clinical Competence →

Sponsor

Copenhagen Academy for Medical Education and Simulation

Who can join

Eligibility, any sex, with Humans or Simulation Training. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

The study is a randomized experimental study comparing two forms of learning; guided-discovery-learning and traditional instructional learning. Recruiting sixty-four participants, the investigators plan on comparing these two groups through a procedural skill in the form of suturing. In the case of guided-discovery-learning, the group will be allowed a discovery phase before instruction. In contrast, the control group will receive traditional instruction-lead-learning, in which a teacher teaches the participants a skill, and afterwards the participants practice it. After the teaching session, both groups will undertake a post-test of skill-level. A week later both groups will undertake a test for the execution of the learned suturing skill to a more complex version of the original task (Near-transfer). They will also undergo a test for the ability to transfer their learning to a new skill (i.e. preparation for future learning), in this case a new suture (Far-transfer). By filming these tests and having a blinded expert rater score them, the investigators will be able to get a measurement of attained transfer of skill-level throughout the procedures. The investigators hypothesis is that, the participants in the Guided-discovery-group will have an equal score to that of the traditional-learning group in the ability to obtain a skill and transfer it to a more complex version. Furthermore, the investigators hypothesize that the Guided-discovery-group will score better than the traditional-learning group in the case of transferring the procedural knowledge to learning a new skill.

As well as testing the efficacy of guided-discovery-learning on a procedural skill, the investigators wish to investigate how and why it works. By filming a subset of participants in each group, as well as using questionnaires, and focus-group interviews the investigators will explore how participants interact in this different learning-environment compared to the traditional instructional learning-environment.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial.