Video-based Learning for Basic Surgical Skills

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Teaching Basic Surgical Techniques
• Interventions: Other: Teaching from videos

• Registration Number: NCT06571903
• Lead Sponsor: Universidade do Porto

Brief Summary

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

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2024-07-11
• Status Verified: 2024-08
• Study First Submitted QC: 2024-08-22
• Study Start: 2024-08-23
• Study First Posted: 2024-08-26
• Primary Completion: 2024-09-30
• Study Completion: 2024-10-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2025-02-21
• Last Update Posted: 2025-02-25

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 50

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

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Intervention	Teaching from videos	Teaching from videos for independent study

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Assessment of the qualities of the techniques (Objective Structured Assessment of Technical Skills (OSATS) modified scale)	2 weeks	Evaluate the quality of execution of the technical gesture and its retention on each group (teaching basic surgical techniques through video and traditional education (courses face-to-face)). The Objective Structured Assessment of Technical Skills (OSATS) modified scale is scored from 8 (worst performance) to 40 (best performance).
Time the participants took to complete the procedure	2 weeks	Time in minutes and seconds (mm:ss) that the participants took to complete the procedure on each group (teaching basic surgical techniques through video and traditional education (courses face-to-face)).

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Assessment of participants' involvement and interest (time of self-study in hours)	1 month	Time of self-study in hours and minutes (hh:mm), to check participants' involvement and interest in the teaching method through video.
Participant satisfaction with teaching method (Likert-like satisfaction questionnaire)	1 day	Likert-like satisfaction questionnaire scored from 5 (worst outcome) to 25 (best outcome).

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Faculty of Medicine of University of Porto; 🇵🇹 Porto, Portugal