Teaching Basic Surgical Techniques
Conditions
Keywords
Video-based Learning, Basic Surgical Skills, mOSATS, Surgical Education, Teaching Methods
Brief summary
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
Interventions
OTHERTeaching from videos
Teaching from videos for independent study
Sponsors
Centro Hospitalar De São João, E.P.E.
Rede de Investigação em Saúde
Universidade do Porto
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Yes
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
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Assessment of the qualities of the techniques (Objective Structured Assessment of Technical Skills (OSATS) modified scale) | 2 weeks | 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 the participants took to complete the procedure | 2 weeks | 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)). |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Assessment of participants' involvement and interest (time of self-study in hours) | 1 month | Time of self-study in hours and minutes (hh:mm), to check participants' involvement and interest in the teaching method through video. |
| Participant satisfaction with teaching method (Likert-like satisfaction questionnaire) | 1 day | Likert-like satisfaction questionnaire scored from 5 (worst outcome) to 25 (best outcome). |
Countries
Portugal
Outcome results
None listed