Video-based Learning for Basic Surgical Skills

February 21, 2025 updated by: Universidade do Porto

Video-based Learning for Basic Surgical Skills - a Randomized Trial

This is a prospective randomized study, intended to evaluate the effectiveness of teaching basic surgical techniques through video, comparing the results with those of traditional teaching

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

50

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • Portugal
      • Porto, Portugal
        • Faculty of Medicine of University of Porto

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Child
  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Students from the 1st to 3rd years of the Integrated Master's Degree in Medicine at the University of Porto,
  • Able to participate in a course of basic surgical techniques (simple suturing, X-stitches, U-stitches and Donatti points)

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Participants is to have had prior contact with techniques surgical and/or minor surgery,
  • Participants had contact with techniques surgical and/or minor surgery in the period between recruitment and completion of the proposed learning

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Other
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
No Intervention: Traditional Learning
Teaching with an expert tutor, in a in-person course
Experimental: Video-based Learning
Teaching with videos for autonomous learning and practice
Other: Teaching from videos
Teaching from videos for independent study

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Assessment of the qualities of the techniques (Objective Structured Assessment of Technical Skills (OSATS) modified scale)
Time Frame: 2 weeks
Evaluate the quality of execution of the technical gesture and its retention on each group (teaching basic surgical techniques through video and traditional education (courses face-to-face)). The Objective Structured Assessment of Technical Skills (OSATS) modified scale is scored from 8 (worst performance) to 40 (best performance).
2 weeks
Time the participants took to complete the procedure
Time Frame: 2 weeks
Time in minutes and seconds (mm:ss) that the participants took to complete the procedure on each group (teaching basic surgical techniques through video and traditional education (courses face-to-face)).
2 weeks

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Assessment of participants' involvement and interest (time of self-study in hours)
Time Frame: 1 month
Time of self-study in hours and minutes (hh:mm), to check participants' involvement and interest in the teaching method through video.
1 month
Participant satisfaction with teaching method (Likert-like satisfaction questionnaire)
Time Frame: 1 day
Likert-like satisfaction questionnaire scored from 5 (worst outcome) to 25 (best outcome).
1 day

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Universidade do Porto

Collaborators

Centro Hospitalar De São João, E.P.E.
Rede de Investigação em Saúde

Investigators

  • Study Director: Vitor Lopes, MD, PhD, Faculty of Medicine of University of Porto

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

August 23, 2024

Primary Completion (Actual)

September 30, 2024

Study Completion (Actual)

October 10, 2024

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

July 11, 2024

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

August 22, 2024

First Posted (Actual)

August 26, 2024

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

March 25, 2025

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

February 21, 2025

Last Verified

August 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Other Study ID Numbers

  • VBSS

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.

No

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