Learning to Palpate the Child's Testicles Using Simulation

NCT ID: NCT07106502

Last Updated: 2025-08-06

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 62 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2025-10-01
• Study Completion Date: 2026-10-01

Brief Summary

Hypothesis is that better training of medical students in the examination of boy's external genitalia could improve the diagnosis of testicular position anomalies. To this end, investigators already have created a model to train testicle palpation and recognition of testicular position anomalies. So investigator set up a monocentric randomized controlled trial in wich the medical students will be randomized into 2 groups : a control group receiging only book-based theoretical instruction on the examination of the external genitalia and testicular position anomalies, and a mannequin group receibing, in addition to this conventionnal instruction, simulation training on the mannequin Medical students will then attend a consultation with a child whose reason for coming to the hospital is a testicular positioning anomaly. Students clinical examination will be scored by the consulting senior, and the final diagnosis retained by the student will be compared with that retained by the consulting senior. The aim is to show that medical students who have trained on this new model are better, in terms of clinical examination and diagnostic, than students in the control group.

Conditions

Testicular Positioning Anomalies; Cryptorchidism

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: DIAGNOSTIC
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Control group

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

mannequin simulation-based learning group

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

testicular palpation training on a mannequin

Intervention Type: PROCEDURE

Study of testicular palpation training on a mannequin on the ability to perform a testicular examination and diagnose testicular positioning abnormalities

Interventions

testicular palpation training on a mannequin

Study of testicular palpation training on a mannequin on the ability to perform a testicular examination and diagnose testicular positioning abnormalities

Intervention Type: PROCEDURE

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Medical student who volunteers to take part in the study during their pediatric or pediatric surgery clerkship or at the simulation center

Exclusion Criteria

• student non in pediatric intership or non in pediatric surgery intership or non at the simulation center intership
• Student with previous simulation training in the examination of the external genitalia of children

• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

University Hospital, Angers

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Louise RENOULT

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

University Hospital of Angers

Central Contacts

Louise RENOULT

Role: CONTACT

louise.renoult@chu-angers.fr

2 41 35 42 90 ext. +33

Other Identifiers

49RC24_0256

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id