Gender Stigma Consciousness and Surgical Training

Gender Issues Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Effect of Gender-stigma Consciousness on General Surgery Trainees' Experiences and Skill Performance.

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03623009
• Other study ID #: PRO18040386
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: August 1, 2018
• Est. completion date: August 1, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: October 2019
• Source: University of Pittsburgh
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Previous investigations have focused on challenges that surgeons face once they have entered into practice. We have yet to explore difficulties in the training environment, and whether these have an effect on professional development. In this study, we investigate how certain environmental factors can affect skill acquisition for the resident surgeon. Our trial tests whether psychosocial constructs affect task-performance. This study is a multi-center endeavor with the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, the University of Washington, and UPMC. Over an 12 month period, residents will be asked to complete surveys and a laparoscopic skills assessment, which will be administered after residents are randomized to an intervention or control arm. The intervention arm will be asked to read an article that is meant to trigger psychosocial constructs that we hypothesize will affect skill performance. The control arm will receive a neutral article prior to completing the laparoscopic skills assessment.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 85
• Est. completion date: August 1, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: August 1, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria: Categorical General surgery residents who completed undergraduate medical education in the United States

Exclusion Criteria: Residents who have completed graduate medical education training in a subspecialty prior to their general surgery residency.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Gender Issues

Intervention

Behavioral:
• An article meant to trigger certain psychosocial behaviors
An article meant to trigger certain psychosocial behaviors is administered to the intervention arm prior to laparoscopic skills assessment.
• a neutral article
The control arm will receive a neutral article prior to completing the assessment.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	UPMC	Pittsburgh	Pennsylvania

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Pittsburgh	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, University of Washington

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Score on laparoscopic skills assessment	Score (continuous outcome) based on verified fundamentals of laparoscopic skills assessment grading rubric.	12 months
Secondary	Changes in psychosocial constructs	Changes in Likert scale ratings of psychosocial constructs as assessed by survey with previously published verified sub scales.	12 months