Study Will be Focused on Medical Students Naive to Surgical Robotics Clinical Trial
Official title:
Proficiency Based Robotics Training Curriculum: Skill Acquisition & Transferability of Skills
The goal of our project is to define the optimal learning environment and protocol for dvSS® simulation activities using medical students as robotic-naïve research participants.
The goal of our project is to define the optimal learning environment and protocol for dvSS®
simulation activities using medical students as robotic-naïve research participants. We
propose to accomplish this goal through the following aims:
Specific Aim #1: to investigate the total training time and the total number of repetitions
required for participants to achieve proficiency (as defined on the dvSS® as 91%) for each
of the selected exercises in selected dVSS activities.
Specific Aim #2: to measure the transferability of skills acquired through a robotic
simulation to live porcine models compared to nonintervention controls. Our study will
compare the effect of training with the dVSS to similar nonintervention controls by grading
a suturing procedure on a live porcine model.
Findings generated from this study will provide new insight into the efficacy of the dVSS as
a simulation- based training tool for medical practitioners. Collectively, this work will
build upon the narrow knowledge base on how to develop a nationally accredited
simulation-based robotics curriculum.
Our study undoubtedly furthers the GWU SMHS mission of education, research, and healing. The
study seeks to understand the learning curve students can achieve by simulation-based
training and then to directly apply that training to a safe in vivo model in order to
determine training interventions that can inform a robotic curriculum both locally at GWU
and throughout the country. Additionally, our study is innovative in that it is the first of
its kind to correlate skills acquired on a robotic-simulation gynecology based tool to a
live porcine model. Our study seeks to enhance the current GWU GYN robotics- curriculum and
assist with the development of a specific curriculum within the next year. Although our
immediate goal is for planning toward a gynecology robotic curriculum, results of this study
could also inform development of robotic programs in other disciplines such as general
surgery and urology. Considering, the limited development of simulation-based robotics
curriculum, further refining the curriculum would allow GWU to continue "to be globally
recognized as a medical center that embraces the challenge of…transforming health care, and
expanding research to enrich and improve the lives of those we serve." It also serves to
"leverage the SMHS brand to enhance opportunities for recognition, distinction..&
marketing." Preparing a generation of well-trained and confident gynecologic surgeons will
allow us to provide safe care to women.
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Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Investigator)