Metric-based Feedback Training for the Acquisition of Sonographic Skills

NCT02976623 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: ECM 4 (f) 19/01/16
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 13
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The investigators hypothesized that feedback based on previously developed and validated metrics will improve novices' learning of procedural skills. The objective of this study was to determine the effect of a structured, objective and terminal feedback on novices' performance skills of ultrasonography part of ultrasound-guided axillary brachial plexus block.

Conditions

Simulation Training

Keywords

metrics; feedback; ultrasound-guided; procedural skills

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• number of steps completed and number of errors committed

  through study completion, an average of one year

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• scanning time

  through study completion, an average of one year

Study Arms (2)

feedback group

OTHER

this group will receive the intervention "metric-based feedback training" on their performance. this will be based on validated metrics and errors, a trained investigator will deliver this feedback. It will be accompanied by deliberate practice

Other: metric-based feedback training

control group

NO INTERVENTION

this control group will receive a standard type feedback on their performance "no intervention". It will be delivered by a consultant anaesthetist who will be instructed to deliver feedback as they ordinarily do during their clinical practice

Interventions

metric-based feedback training OTHER

Structured feedback; a trained investigator will give feedback according to a set of metrics and errors previously developed and validated. Trainees will undergo deliberate practice on the volunteer until they demonstrate adequate and objective performance as assessed by the set of metrics and errors provided.

feedback group

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• Anaesthesia trainees in the first two years of training at Cork University Hospital
• having performed no more than 5 ultrasound-guided peripheral nerve blocks

You may not qualify if:

• refusal to consent
• have performed more than 5 ultrasound-guided peripheral nerve blocks

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University College Cork: lead

Study Sites (1)

Cork University Hospital

Cork, Ireland

Location

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: SUPPORTIVE CARE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Consultant Anaesthetist, Senior Lecturer

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: November 11, 2016
• First Posted: November 29, 2016
• Study Start: June 1, 2016
• Primary Completion: February 1, 2017
• Study Completion: February 1, 2017
• Last Updated: May 9, 2017

Record last verified: 2017-05

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

IE (1)