Teaching Simple Skin Sutures to Medical Students

Medical Students Clinical Trial

— E-SUTURE  

Official title:

Comparison of Methods for Teaching Simple Skin Sutures to Medical Students: a Randomized Blinded Controlled Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06037616
• Other study ID #: 2023 LAUTRETTE E-SUTURE
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: August 30, 2023
• Est. completion date: December 30, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: August 2023
• Source: University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand
• Contact: Lise Laclautre
• Phone: 04 73 75 11 95
• Email: drci[@]chu-clermontferrand.fr
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Learning the simple skin suture is part of the surgical basics required for all medical students, including future general practitioners.

However, there is no data in the educational literature to help choose the best learning technique.

Several teams have offered video learning showing the correct technique. Level n+1 peer learning was also proposed, without and with supervision by an expert.

The investigators propose to carry out a prospective study comparing the quality of sutures and knowledge according to the chosen learning method.

Description:

Send to medical student a teaching package two weeks before simulation session to practice skin suture. There are 4 teaching packages related to 4 interventional groups The skin suture performed by medical students are recorded on video. 1 video per medical student.

The skin sutures recorded in these video are rated by two blinded expert with evaluation grid.

After the simulation session, the students complete knowledge, self-confidence, satisfaction and mental load questionnaires

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 200
• Est. completion date: December 30, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: September 30, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 40 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Medical student of the faculty of Clermont-Ferrand

Exclusion Criteria:

• Refusal to participate

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Medical Students

Intervention

Other:
• powerpoint and tutor
Powerpoint on indication of skin suture and tutor for the skill to perform skin suture
• video skill
Video showing skill to perform a skin suture
• video errors
Video showing errors of skin suture

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	CHU de Clermont-Ferrand	Clermont-Ferrand

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	quality of skin suture	Quality of suture on anonymized video recording during the assessment day, rated by the blinded expert using an evaluation grid evaluation grid is made up of 14 items from the litterature the minimum value is: 0 (worse outcome) and maximum value is: 15 points (better outcome)	15 days after simulation session
Secondary	knowledge of student	8 multiple choice questions (5 items per MCQ); the minimum value is: 0 (worse outcome) and maximum value is: 8 points (better outcome)	15 days after simulation session
Secondary	self-confidence of student	self evaluation with a Likert scale (5points); point 0 corresponds to "no confidence"; point 5 corresponds to "total confidence"	15 days after simulation session
Secondary	mental load of student	self evaluation with a Likert scale (9points); point 0 corresponds to "very low"; point 9 corresponds to "very high"	15 days after simulation session