The Role of Virtual Reality in Orthopaedic Surgery Education

NCT04302298 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 2019-0335
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 27
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality are becoming prominent in the medical sciences due to the increasing sophistication of VR technology and its improving haptics to simulate real-life situations. Previous medical VR studies focused on arthroscopic minimally-invasive procedures which often do not carry the risk of invasive procedures. OssoVR, an orthopedic surgery virtual reality company, has created a platform to run through different invasive orthopedic procedures prior to operating on a patient. Given that invasive procedures inherently carry more risk and variability than minimally invasive procedures, training tools to help with these operations are vital prior to performing on a patient. The research team will evaluate the face validity, transfer validity, and surgical recall of the orthopedic virtual reality software in an intramedullary (IM) tibial nail procedure. The research team will evaluate the simulation with medical students who have not had prior exposure to the procedure. Including medical students will allow for a larger sample size for more analysis. An IM tibial nail procedure is used in tibial fractures to help stabilize the fractured long bone via placement of a nail within the bone.

Conditions

Virtual Reality; Surgical Training

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Completion Rate

  Which participants completed the SawBones procedure

  day 10-14

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Number of Steps Performed Correctly - Accuracy

  Within 25 minutes

• Time of Completion

  up to 25 minutes

Study Arms (2)

Virtual Reality Group

EXPERIMENTAL

This group will go through the virtual reality simulation of a procedure prior to doing it on a plastic SawBone.

Device: Virtual Reality

Technique Guide Group

NO INTERVENTION

This group will go be able to read through a technique guide on the procedure prior to doing it on a plastic SawBone. This is the current method of learning in surgical residencies.

Interventions

Virtual Reality DEVICE

A machine which immerses the participant in a simulated environment where they can perform a procedure.

Virtual Reality Group

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 20 Years - 27 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• st or 2nd year medical students at University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine

You may not qualify if:

• if they had done or ever seen a tibial nail procedure in the past

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Illinois at Chicago: lead

Study Sites (1)

University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine

Chicago, Illinois, 60611, United States

Location

Study Officials

• Mark H Gonzalez, MD

  University of Illinois at Chicago

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Masking Details: Medical students will be recruited via an email which asks them to participate in the trial. Those who respond will be randomly assigned into the virtual reality or technique guide group, and thus know which group they are a part of. They will be randomly assigned into these groups using a number generator of 1 or 2 for the virtual reality and technique guide group, respectively. An equal amount of participants will be allocated to each group. Following completion of the experiment, the attending physician evaluating their performance will be blinded to which group they were in as well as the gender of the participant to eliminate any bias.
• Purpose: BASIC SCIENCE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Professor and Department Chair of the Department of Orthopaedics

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: February 11, 2020
• First Posted: March 10, 2020
• Study Start: August 20, 2019
• Primary Completion: September 25, 2019
• Study Completion: November 18, 2019
• Last Updated: March 10, 2020

Record last verified: 2020-02

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (1)