A Trial on the Effect of Simulation-based Diagnostic Abdominal Ultrasound Training

NCT02921867 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: Abd.Sim.Training.RT
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 20
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The investigators hypothesise that simulation-based training will have initial educational benefits and in coherence with the traditional apprenticeship model will heighten the educational end-level: That training on the simulator before clinical education will prepare the trainee for practice and thereby support more effective learning.

Conditions

Pathology

Keywords

ultrasound; radiology; simulation; abdominal ultrasound; medical education

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• All participants in both groups will be scored during their clinical ultrasound training by their supervising physicians using Objective Structured Assessment of Ultrasound Skills (OSAUS)

  Enrollment will forego until 22 residents in total has been enrolled; expectantly in 9-12 month..

Study Arms (2)

Intervention group

EXPERIMENTAL

Simulation-based training in nine modules with optional training times and ending with an obligatory certification test before traditional training is started. Traditional training time unaltered: six weeks.

Other: Simulation-based training

Traditional training

NO INTERVENTION

Six weeks focused stay at an ultrasound ward with day to day one-on-one supervision (current practise)

Interventions

Simulation-based training OTHER

The simulation-based training will consist of nine modules that can be trained in random order and training periods within the eight weeks before clinical training starts.

Intervention group

Eligibility Criteria

• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Fluent oral and written Danish or English.

You may not qualify if:

• Clinical ultrasound training or completed ultrasound courses with or without simulation training for more than one week in total prior to enrollment.
• Failure to complete simulation-based training or pass the simulation-based diagnostic ultrasound test. Failure to complete the logbook.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Rigshospitalet, Denmark: lead

Study Sites (1)

Copenhagen University hospital, Rigshospitalet

Copenhagen, Copenhagen O, 2100, Denmark

Location

Related Publications (2)

• Todsen T, Tolsgaard MG, Olsen BH, Henriksen BM, Hillingso JG, Konge L, Jensen ML, Ringsted C. Reliable and valid assessment of point-of-care ultrasonography. Ann Surg. 2015 Feb;261(2):309-15. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000000552.

  PMID: 24509198 BACKGROUND

• Ostergaard ML, Rue Nielsen K, Albrecht-Beste E, Kjaer Ersboll A, Konge L, Bachmann Nielsen M. Simulator training improves ultrasound scanning performance on patients: a randomized controlled trial. Eur Radiol. 2019 Jun;29(6):3210-3218. doi: 10.1007/s00330-018-5923-z. Epub 2019 Jan 7.

  PMID: 30617476 DERIVED

Study Officials

• Mia L Østergaard, MD

  Copenhagen University Hospital at Herlev

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: QUADRUPLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT, CARE PROVIDER, INVESTIGATOR, OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: DIAGNOSTIC
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: MD, PhD researchfellow

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: September 21, 2016
• First Posted: October 3, 2016
• Study Start: December 1, 2016
• Primary Completion: February 15, 2018
• Study Completion: February 15, 2018
• Last Updated: March 15, 2018

Record last verified: 2018-03

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

DK (1)