Assessment of Skill Retention in Clinical Practice

Teaching program population: Participants in Hadassah Ein Kerem ultrasound training day - Anesthesia residents Exclusion criteria: Refusal to participate, insufficient understanding of written English used in the questionnaires

Stage 1 - training The aims and requirements of the teaching program will be explained to the participants at the start of the workshop. All participants will be given a sticker with a number and a questionnaire numbered about current ultrasound practice which is numbered according to participant number to allow for blinding. Anyone not wishing to participate can either remove their sticker or not return the questionnaire at the end of the session. The number on the questionnaire correlated to participant number. This will be recorded against the participant name to allow for further follow up. All participants will rotate normally throughout the sessions. At the end of the neuraxial session participants will be scored by the session leader according to their ability to adequately carry out the procedure. Scores will be correlated to participant number.

Stage 2 - assessment of skill retention

Following the training day participants will randomly be allocated into two groups. One group will receive regular reminders to use ultrasound for all neuraxial anesthesias they perform in the OR or labor ward. They will be reminded on a regular basis that ultrasound is a new tool to assist them in performing neuraxial ultrasound. The other group with be allowed to continue with their regular practice and will not receive reminders to use ultrasound for neuraxial anesthesia insertion. Two months after the initial training day all participants with be observed performing neuraxial anesthesia and re-assesed according to the original scoring system. Each participant will be assessed 3 times over a 6 month period.

Study Overview

• Status: Unknown
• Conditions: Risk Reduction
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: reminder

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 30
• Phase: Not Applicable

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 70 years (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Practicing anesthesiologists of all levels at Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital

Exclusion Criteria:

• Unwillingness to complete questionnaire, poor English comprehension

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Factorial Assignment
• Masking: Double

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Active Comparator: reminder; participants in this group will be reminded to use ultrasound for neuraxial anesthesia on a regular basis	Behavioral: reminder
No Intervention: control; participants in this group will not be reminded to use ultrasound for neuraxial anesthesia

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Ultrasound Performance on a model	ability of participants to perform neuraxial ultrasound will be assessed at 2 monthly intervals	1 year

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Hadassah Medical Organization

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: April 1, 2015
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): February 1, 2016

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: June 10, 2015
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 26, 2015
• First Posted (Estimate): July 29, 2015

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): July 29, 2015
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 26, 2015
• Last Verified: February 1, 2015

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: 0036-13-HMO