Clinical trial NCT05620186: PROficiency Based StePwise Endovascular Curricular Training: Multicentric Registry
Official title: Registry Endovascular Training Curriculum PROSPECT for Surgical Trainees (PROficiency-based StePwise Endovascular Curricular Training Program)
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Vascular Diseases
Keywords: simulation based education
endovascular procedures
Lead sponsor: University Hospital, Ghent
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-11-17
Enrollment: 120
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Intervention model description: Registry, no comparison
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Brief summary: The goal of this multicentric registry is to gather data from trainees completing PROSPECT: a PROficiency Based StePwise Endovascular Curricular Training to obtain basic cognitive and technical skills. The main goals are to identify if:

* Results from a previous randomised controlled trail can be reproduced in real life.
* Evaluate skills retention after program completion.
* Assess real life implementation of the training program.

Detailed description: A validated PROSPECT (PROficiency-based StePwise Endovascular Curricular Training) training has been integrated into the training of surgical residents to teach basic cognitive, technical and non-technical endovascular skills. The program uses virtual reality simulation and E-learning. During the four modules of the program, formative feedback is given after each training session. Only after achieving a predetermined benchmark score, trainees can progress to the next module.

Surgical trainees completing PROSPECT showed superior real live endovascular performance compared to the traditionally trained in a single centre randomised controlled trial (RCT). The curriculum was integrated locally, but also introduced in other centers: national and international. Local tutors teach the curriculum to trainees after standardized training on the modalities of PROSPECT by the researchers of the Ghent.

A registry is maintained and coordinated by the Ghent research group in which all educational data regarding this training is collected and processed anonymously.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Surgical trainee
* Knowledge and technical skill level evaluated
* Demographics questionnaire and general MCQ test completed
* Endovascular simulated exercise completed after familiarization with the simulator

Exclusion Criteria:

* N/A

Primary outcomes:
measure: Cognitive skills
timeFrame: comparison before program start and after completion. This means through study completion.
measure: Technical skills
timeFrame: comparison before program start and after completion. This means through study completion.
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Cognitive skills retention
timeFrame: 3, 6 and 12 months after program completion
measure: Technical skills retention
timeFrame: 3, 6 and 12 months after program completion
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Ghent
country: Belgium
facility: University Hospital Ghent
city: Leuven
country: Belgium
facility: KU Leuven
city: Copenhagen
country: Denmark
facility: CAMES
Study officials:
affiliation: University Hospital, Ghent
name: Isabelle Van Herzeele, MD, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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