Video-based Learning for Basic Surgical Skills

N/ACompletedNCT06571903

Universidade do Porto50 enrolled

Overview

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

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

OTHER

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Teaching Basic Surgical Techniques

Interventions

Teaching from videosOTHER

Teaching from videos for independent study

Eligibility

Sex: ALLHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

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

Locations (1)

Faculty of Medicine of University of Porto

Porto, Portugal

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Assessment of the qualities of the techniques (Objective Structured Assessment of Technical Skills (OSATS) modified scale)

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 frame: 2 weeks

Time the participants took to complete the procedure

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)).

Time frame: 2 weeks

Secondary Outcomes

Assessment of participants' involvement and interest (time of self-study in hours)

Time of self-study in hours and minutes (hh:mm), to check participants' involvement and interest in the teaching method through video.

Time frame: 1 month

Participant satisfaction with teaching method (Likert-like satisfaction questionnaire)

Likert-like satisfaction questionnaire scored from 5 (worst outcome) to 25 (best outcome).

Time frame: 1 day

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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