The Impact of Immersive Virtual Reality Training in Thyroid Surgery
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
AgeNot listed
SponsorG.Gennimatas General Hospital
About this trial
Up to this date, there have been no reports on virtual reality (VR) training in thyroid surgery. The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of VR training in residents' education.
Investigators intend to include general surgery residents in the trial, subgrouped in a VR training group and another one with traditional learning, utilizing a technical textbook as a control. For the purpose of this study, a commercial available VR mask will be given for training in the VR group. Randomization will be used to secure balance in the distribution of residents according to their experience. The task which will be examined include surgical steps from neck incision up to the placement of the C-IONM electrode and will be evaluated by a blinded FEBS certified endocrine surgeon in the operating theatre.
Training superiority will be assessed by the outcome measures of Objective Structured Assessment of Technical Skills (OSATS) score, need for the main surgeon to intervene (NTI), verbal answers and time to task completion. Participants will complete questionnaires regarding satisfaction of the whole educational process.
Eligibility criteria
This trial accepts healthy volunteersQualifiers
Residents of the 2nd Surgical Department of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Residents who have completed their 1st year of training programm.
Disqualifiers
Disagreement of participants' randomisation
Prolonged surgical time of completion
Participant's experience beyond the included limits
Participants who are completely incapable of using VR devices or have specific helath restrictions of using these
Trial design
Design model
Parallel
Treatments tested in this trial
Virtual Reality Training in Thyroid Surgery
Other interventionParticipants will use an application in an Immersive Virtual Reality environment. In this module, the participant will be the chief surgeon and will be guided to accomplise the first steps of thyroidectomy: from neck incision until continious neuromonitoring device placement in vagus nerve.
Convetional Training
Other interventionThis intervation consists of traditional methods of training. Participants will read specific chapters of a technical book specialised in Endocrine Surgery (Atlas of Thyroid Surgery- Alexander Shifrin). Also, they will be provided with videos of the clinic's archive which will support them with specific surgical steps : neck incision up to Continious Neuromonitoring Device placement on Vagus nerve.
Treatment groups
12 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groupsGroup A: Control GroupActive comparator 1 intervention
Group B: Virtual Reality GroupExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
1
OSATS Score
As the Primary Outcome Measure of the study will be the OSATS(Objective Structured Assessment of Technical Skills) score of participants in each group. Statistical significance of this score between groups will be measured.OSATS is a worlwide tool which measure surgical performance using 7 measurements and scoring system from 7 to 35. Its main advantage is that can measure with a quantitative manner surgical performance.
Time frame
From enrollment to the end of assesment of the FEBS certicied surgeon at 1 daySponsors and contacts
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Source ClinicalTrials.gov