Video Coaching as an Efficient Teaching Method for Surgical Residents

NCT ID: NCT02529254

Last Updated: 2016-02-09

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

28 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2015-05-31

Study Completion Date

2015-07-31

Brief Summary

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The purpose of this study is to determine if video coaching is an efficient way of teaching surgical skills outside of the operating room for surgical residents.

Detailed Description

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Coaching relates to a cooperative process between a coach and a coachee, which includes "providing objective and constructive feedback to help a \[coachee\] recognize what works and what can be improved.

In our study the investigators will be filming general surgery residents while making a side to side anastomosis on a dog's cadaveric small bowel. Half of the participants will be randomized in the intervention group and will take part in a half hour coaching session with a surgeon. In this coaching session both resident and surgeon will watch the resident's filmed anastomosis and constructive feedback will be given by the surgeon. An inanimate model of bowel anastomosis will be available at the moment of the coaching to allow the surgeon to demonstrate the desired improvements.

Once all the residents in the intervention group will have completed their coaching session, both control and intervention group will be filmed making a second side to side anastomosis.

All the video taken will then be pooled in a random order. A blinded surgeon will then analyse each video taken with the objective structured assessment of technical skills (OSATS) tool.

The hypothesis is that the residents who received an half-hour coaching session will have significantly improved their OSATS score compared to the control group between the first and second anastomosis.

Conditions

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Healthy

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Video coaching

14 residents in general surgery from PGY-1(post graduate year-1) to PGY-4 Block randomized to the intervention group who will receive a 30 minute video coaching session as the intervention

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Video coaching session

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

A 30 minute video coaching session with a surgeon in witch the residaent and coach visualise the filmed anastomosis and where the surgeon gives constructive feedback.

Control

14 residents in general surgery from PGY-1 to PGY-4 block randomized to the control group

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Video coaching session

A 30 minute video coaching session with a surgeon in witch the residaent and coach visualise the filmed anastomosis and where the surgeon gives constructive feedback.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Residents from PGY-1 to PGY-4 in general surgery at Université de Montreal

Exclusion Criteria

* PGY-5 in general surgery at université de Montreal ( because they are studying for their Board exams )
* Did no sing consent form
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Pierre Dubé

Assistant director of clinical research, Chief of general surgery, Program director of general surgery.

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Mikael L Soucisse, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

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Hopital Maisonneuve-Rosemont

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Site Status

Countries

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Canada

References

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Singh P, Aggarwal R, Tahir M, Pucher PH, Darzi A. A randomized controlled study to evaluate the role of video-based coaching in training laparoscopic skills. Ann Surg. 2015 May;261(5):862-9. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000000857.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 25185469 (View on PubMed)

Martin JA, Regehr G, Reznick R, MacRae H, Murnaghan J, Hutchison C, Brown M. Objective structured assessment of technical skill (OSATS) for surgical residents. Br J Surg. 1997 Feb;84(2):273-8. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2168.1997.02502.x.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 9052454 (View on PubMed)

Greenberg CC, Ghousseini HN, Pavuluri Quamme SR, Beasley HL, Wiegmann DA. Surgical coaching for individual performance improvement. Ann Surg. 2015 Jan;261(1):32-4. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000000776. No abstract available.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 24887977 (View on PubMed)

Bonrath EM, Dedy NJ, Gordon LE, Grantcharov TP. Comprehensive Surgical Coaching Enhances Surgical Skill in the Operating Room: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Ann Surg. 2015 Aug;262(2):205-12. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000001214.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 25822691 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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Surgery video coaching 15006

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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