Traditional Versus Virtual Reality for Surgical Skills for ObGyn Residents

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Gynecologic Disease
• Interventions: Behavioral: Virtual Reality+conventional training; Behavioral: Conventional training

• Registration Number: NCT03395821
• Lead Sponsor: Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre

Brief Summary

This study will verify if a comprehensive laparoscopic curriculum using virtual reality demonstrates skills transfer to the operating room, compared to the traditional teaching method.

Detailed Description

Second-year residents from different programs of residency in obstetrics and gynecology in Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, will be invited to participate in this study. they will be randomized to receive a comprehensive training in laparoscopy using modern virtual reality program or the traditional method of training according to their residency program. After 12 weeks of training, they will finish their training and they will perform advanced laparoscopic surgery in the simulator according to their specific needs, for example, salpingectomy, oophorectomy advanced laparoscopic suture or hysterectomy. Data generated from the simulator program will be compared between groups.

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2017-12
• Study Start: 2017-12-22
• Study First Submitted: 2017-12-27
• Study First Submitted QC: 2018-01-04
• Last Update Submitted: 2018-01-04
• Study First Posted: 2018-01-10
• Last Update Posted: 2018-01-10
• Primary Completion: 2018-12-01
• Study Completion: 2018-12-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 24

Inclusion Criteria

• residents in obstetrics and gynecology that are about to finish their second-year program

Exclusion Criteria

• refuse to participate

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Virtual Reality+conventional training	Virtual Reality+conventional training	Residents will receive 12 weeks of virtual training for laparoscopy and their traditional training for laparoscopic surgery according to their residency program.
Conventional training	Conventional training	Residents will receive the traditional training for laparoscopic surgery according to their residency program.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Efficiency of technical skills (%)	12 weeks	The software analyzes the percentage of time the needle-holders' ends are kept outside the operative field (%); total number of entrance and exit points through which the needle has passed; total aggressive tissue handling; total amount of strain applied to tissue during needle passages; total needle loading time; total number of completed knots; total number of needle loadings; total number of needle passages; total number of stitches; total time the needle-holders' ends are kept outside the predefined operative field; total time to accomplish the suture; Total time to form a knot. For salpingectomy: efficiency of cautery (%); number of non-cauterized bleeding; number of serious complications: possible damage to vital structures; safe cautery (%); the time cautery is applied without appropriate contact with adhesions; total number of applied clips.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

HCPA; 🇧🇷 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil