A Trial on the Effect of Simulation-based Diagnostic Abdominal Ultrasound Training

The investigators hypothesise that simulation-based training will have initial educational benefits and in coherence with the traditional apprenticeship model will heighten the educational end-level: That training on the simulator before clinical education will prepare the trainee for practice and thereby support more effective learning.

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Key information

Conditions

Pathology

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Copenhagen University hospital, Rigshospitalet

Copenhagen, Copenhagen O, 2100, Denmark

About this study

This study will be registered at ClincalTrials.gov and reported according to the CONSORT statement.

Setting: Clinical training will forego unaltered as current practice at the department of the individual resident's employment. The simulated training will be held as individual training sessions on the Schallware Ultrasound simulator (station 64; version 010013) placed at the Copenhagen Academy for Education and Simulation (CAMES), Rigshospitalet. Testing will be done on both the simulator at the Simulationcentre at Rigshospitalet, CAMES and on real life patients in the departments of radiology where the residents are employed.

Population: Participants are residents embarking on the first year of their specialized radiological training before any formalized ultrasound training. Enrollment is voluntary and in collaboration with their department of employment.

Intervention and controlled conditions:

A total of 22 residents at the beginning of their specialized radiological education and before their focused ultrasound training are randomised for two educational groups.

The simulation-based training modules will be in a recommend but not mandatory order starting with a general organ-identifying module and continuing with range of pathology modules with headlines: Introduction, Liver I, Liver II, Biliary System, Pancreas and Spleen, Urinary System, Vessels, Other Findings, and Mixed Cases.

The clinical part of training will forego unaltered for both groups for six weeks and all participants will fill out a log of all scans performed and when supervised the supervisor will score their scans using the OSAUS score.

The reviewer scoring the simulation-based test will be blinded. It is not possible to blind the reviewers of the clinical score (OSAUS) as it is the residents' clinical supervisors.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

Fluent oral and written Danish or English.

Exclusion criteria

Clinical ultrasound training or completed ultrasound courses with or without simulation training for more than one week in total prior to enrollment.
Failure to complete simulation-based training or pass the simulation-based diagnostic ultrasound test. Failure to complete the logbook.

Treatment and study plan

Simulation-based training

Other

The simulation-based training will consist of nine modules that can be trained in random order and training periods within the eight weeks before clinical training starts.

Primary outcomes

All participants in both groups will be scored during their clinical ultrasound training by their supervising physicians using Objective Structured Assessment of Ultrasound Skills (OSAUS)

Time frame: Enrollment will forego until 22 residents in total has been enrolled; expectantly in 9-12 month..

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Rigshospitalet, Denmark

Other

Registry information

Official study title

A Randomized Trial on the Effect of Simulation-based Diagnostic Abdominal Ultrasound Training

Important dates

Study start: 2016
Primary completion: 2018
Study completion: 2018
First posted: Oct 3, 2016
Registry last updated: Mar 15, 2018

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This listing is for discovery and informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, does not guarantee that a study is recruiting, and does not determine eligibility. Contact the study team and a qualified healthcare professional when considering participation.

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