Current Trends and Future Perspectives Regarding Elective Rotations

Surgery Clinical Trial

Official title:

Current Trends and Future Perspectives Regarding Elective Rotations Abroad Within Italian Surgical Residency Training: Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full?

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04180917
• Other study ID #: Ita-SURG_S_2019
• Status: Completed
• Start date: January 1, 2017
• Est. completion date: January 30, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: December 2019
• Source: University of Roma La Sapienza
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational [Patient Registry]

Clinical Trial Summary

Surgical resident elective rotation abroad give different opportunity such experience a different teaching and training, acquire more and new operative experience, experience living and working in a different cultural environment. Furthermore, the growing process of globalization that involves the nations themselves in different sectors, should also lead to a homogeneity of training on a global level, in order to be able to guarantee adequate assistance to different types of patients at the same time, and the possibility for doctors themselves of working abroad. the objective of the study is to provide the first overview of what is the current Italian scenario concerning abroad elective rotations during surgical training

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 116
• Est. completion date: January 30, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: December 31, 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• working as short-term supernumerary registrars in a foreign surgical department during the academic year 2017-2018

Exclusion Criteria:

• Surgeons/residents who have not been abroad for training

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Surgery

Intervention

Other:
• Survey
survey

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Roma La Sapienza

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Satisfaction grade of actual elective rotation abroad in Italy	A five point Likert-type scale	1 years
Secondary	Gender	Ratio male/gender	1 year
Secondary	Age at time of elective training	Age	1 year
Secondary	Year of residency at the time of elective training	Multiple choice answers accounting 1 to 6	1 year
Secondary	Institution visited	Multiple choice accounting 5 option such as university hospital, tertiary care hospital, referral center	1 year
Secondary	Global surgical exposure	A five point Likert-type scale	1 year