Video Game Experience and Warm-Up Effects on Laparoscopic Skills Among Medical Students

Universidade de Passo Fundo44 enrolled

Overview

"In surgical practice, alternative training methods are being investigated to enhance laparoscopic skills. The potential correlation between video game playing and technical performance improvements raises the question of whether a brief video game exposure immediately before simulated surgical practice can yield tangible benefits in required tasks. Therefore, this study aims to analyze the impact of prior video game exposure on laparoscopic simulation performance among medical students and first-year residents. This is an experimental, cross-sectional study with post-intervention assessment, conducted at the University of Passo Fundo with 44 undergraduate medical students who meet the inclusion and exclusion criteria, following approval by the UPF Research Ethics Committee. This project was developed through a literature review in electronic databases: Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), Virtual Health Library (BVS), PubMed, UpToDate, and Google Scholar. The most relevant data were then compiled to guide the subsequent data collection."

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

OTHER

Masking

DOUBLE

Enrollment

Conditions

Simulator-based Medical Skill Training

Interventions

Eligibility

Sex: ALLHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Medical students across all training levels * Availability to perform all study activities Exclusion Criteria: * Prior participation in the surgical field during any laparoscopic procedure * Contraindications to simulator use (previous hand surgery, uncorrected visual impairment, or epilepsy)

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Better score in participants with the intervention of the warm up

The score was defined by the evaluation of the videos of the participants using the simulator, made by two different and double blinded surgeons.

Time frame: From the enrollment to the end of the intervention

Better abilities in surgical simulators by chronic video game users

To define chronic video gamers we made and used a questionnaire, that questioned about frequency, types of videogame, types of platforms now and during the adolescence period. And the abilities on the surgical simulators were determined by the evaluation of the two surgeons as was said in the other item.

Time frame: From enrollment to the end of the interventions.