Simulator Training for Direct Ophthalmoscopy

Simulator-based Medical Skill Training Clinical Trial

Official title:

Direct-Ophthalmoscopy-Simulator-Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04157023
• Other study ID #: Simulator
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: January 2017
• Est. completion date: December 2017

Study information

• Verified date: November 2019
• Source: University Hospital Tuebingen
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Evaluation of a digital simulator to train diagnostic skills in Ophthalmology

Description:

Direct Ophthalmoscopy is an important tool to detect pathologies e.g. on the optic nerve head. The training of the needed skills is made conventionally in most cases. In such the training sessions students examine each other after dilating one pupil. Examining of patients with pathologies is very important, but in many cases not very easy without any experience.

Simulators are of growing impact to teach diagnostic or surgical skills. A digital simulator with virtual reality technology is used to teach the skills to unexperienced examiners. The head-eye-hand-coordination can be trained without any stress.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 78
• Est. completion date: December 2017
• Est. primary completion date: December 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Medical student or Ophthalmologist or Neonatologist or Neurologist or Neurosurgeon

• Willing to participate to the study

• Consent to evaluate the measured data

Exclusion Criteria:

• age <18 years

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Simulator-based Medical Skill Training

Intervention

Device:
• Simulator-based Training of Direct Ophthalmoscopy
A digital simulator is used to teach the skills of direct ophthalmoscopy

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University Hospital Tuebingen

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Total examined area	The area that was examined (light on retina) by participants was measured [percent of total area].	1 hour
Primary	Efficiency	Ratio of examination time (light in pupil) and total examined area [ratio]	1 hour
Secondary	Learning effect	Total examined area results and efficiency ratios were compared between simulator case 1 and simulator case 5.	1 hour
Secondary	Questionnaire	A questionnaire was used to measure the self-evaluation of the trained persons	1 hour