Peer-coaching to Teach Faculty Surgeons an Advanced Laparoscopic Skill

Laparoscopy Clinical Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02505724
• Other study ID #: 305-2013
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: July 20, 2015
• Last updated: July 21, 2015
• Start date: July 2014
• Est. completion date: January 2015

Study information

• Verified date: July 2015
• Source: Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Canada: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This single-blinded randomized controlled trial assesses the efficacy of peer-coaching to teach novice surgical faculty an advanced laparoscopic skill.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 18
• Est. completion date: January 2015
• Est. primary completion date: January 2015
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• surgical faculty in the division of general surgery or obstetrics and gynaecology.

• novices in laparoscopic suturing (performed <20 intra-corporeal stiches and knots)

Exclusion Criteria:

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Outcomes Assessor)

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Coaching
• Laparoscopy
• Technical Skill

Intervention

Behavioral:
• conventional training
After completing the initial assessment, faculty randomized to the conventional training group received a link to a web-based instructional video. In addition, they were given a laparoscopic box trainer, laparoscopic instruments and sutures that they could use to practice with at their leisure.
• peer-coaching
Faculty randomized to the peer-coaching group received ½ hour of peer-coaching after completing the initial assessment on the simulator. Each faculty member sutured on the box trainer while being observed by his or her peer-coach. All study participants had the same peer-coach.After the coaching session, study participants received a link to the web-based video as well as the box trainer and supplies to independently practice laparoscopic suturing. Similar to individuals in the control group, no specific guidance regarding the amount of independent practice was given.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Technical Skill	Technical skill as measured by the Objective Structured Assessment of Technical Skill (OSATS) global rating scale. Participants are scored on 4 domains from 0-5 (respect for tissue, precision of operative technique, economy of movements, confidence of movements). The maximum possible score is 20.	Two weeks post intervention	No