An interventional study of Simulator Training in Pain, sponsored by Medical University of Vienna. Completed at 1 site in Austria. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2008-03-27.
Sponsored by Medical University of Vienna · Not applicable, Interventional, and Health services research
Trainees (Residents in internal medicine), naive to real patient endoscopy, will be randomized to receive either 3 weeks/2 hours per day of structured training for a total of 20 hours on the virtual endoscopy simulator GI-Mentor or no training before starting on-patient endoscopy in the University of Vienna Medical School Endoscopy Unit. Patients satisfaction and pain, technical accuracy and number of found/missed pathologies as well as average time for successful endoscopy will be recorded. After one month or 50 supervised, self performed endoscopies, trainees will be evaluated again with the above mentioned criteria during ten consecutive investigations.
Medical University of Vienna is the lead sponsor of 1,076 studies on the registry; 177 are open to participants now.
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Exclusion Criteria:
3 weeks/2 hours per day of structured training for a total of 20 hours on the virtual endoscopy simulator
Procedure: Simulator Training
No simulator training before starting endoscopy training on real patients
3 weeks/2 hours per day of structured training for a total of 20 hours on the virtual endoscopy simulator with the GI-Mentor Virtual simulator device
Patient satisfaction measured on a visual analogue scale (VAS)
Time frame: once immediately after patient endoscopy
pain during endoscopy, measured with patient documentation on a visual analogue scale (VAS)
Time frame: once immediately after patient endoscopy
technical accuracy (oral introduction of the scope into the esophagus, ability of passing the endoscope through the pylorus, inversion of the scope in the gastric fundus)
Time frame: during endoscopy
number of found/missed pathologies
Time frame: during endoscopy
average time for successful endoscopy
Time frame: during endoscopy
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