Trainees (Residents in internal medicine), naive to real patient endoscopy, will be randomized to receive either 3 weeks/2 hours per day of structured training for a total of 20 hours on the virtual endoscopy simulator GI-Mentor or no training before starting on-patient endoscopy in the University of Vienna Medical School Endoscopy Unit. Patients satisfaction and pain, technical accuracy and number of found/missed pathologies as well as average time for successful endoscopy will be recorded. After one month or 50 supervised, self performed endoscopies, trainees will be evaluated again with the above mentioned criteria during ten consecutive investigations.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
24
3 weeks/2 hours per day of structured training for a total of 20 hours on the virtual endoscopy simulator with the GI-Mentor Virtual simulator device
Internal Medicine III, Div. of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Endoscopy Unit, Medical University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
Patient satisfaction measured on a visual analogue scale (VAS)
Time frame: once immediately after patient endoscopy
pain during endoscopy, measured with patient documentation on a visual analogue scale (VAS)
Time frame: once immediately after patient endoscopy
technical accuracy (oral introduction of the scope into the esophagus, ability of passing the endoscope through the pylorus, inversion of the scope in the gastric fundus)
Time frame: during endoscopy
number of found/missed pathologies
Time frame: during endoscopy
average time for successful endoscopy
Time frame: during endoscopy
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