Clinical trial NCT02968407: Peer- and Self-rating of Open Surgery Skills
Official title: Peer- and Self-rating of Open Surgery Skills Using Objective Structured Assessment of Technical Skills
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Surgery
Lead sponsor: Copenhagen Academy for Medical Education and Simulation
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2016-11-18
Enrollment: 22
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Setting The participants will follow the basic open surgery skill course as described in the protocol "The effect of group dynamics in surgical skill training".

Participants Participants are medical doctors and medical students who completed the study "The effect of group dynamics in surgical skill training" as part of the control group.

Brief summary: The study group want to investigate whether doctors, who are in the beginning of their training to become surgeons, can rate themself and their peers using Objective Structured Assessment of Technical Skills. Participants have participated in a 6 weeks course in basic open surgical skills. At the end of the course the participants will be examined at at videotaped test. The participants will be asked to rate their own video and two videos of other trainees' performances. Ratings will be compared to expert ratings.

Detailed description: The study is a prospective, descriptive study investigating whether doctors are able to rate their own and their peers' performance in a basic open surgery skill course. At the end of the course in basic open surgery, participants will be examined at the post-test as described in the protocol "The effect of group dynamics in surgical skill training". After the participants complete the post-test, participants will be asked to participate in this additional study. The participants will receive no instructions on this additional study, before they complete the study "The effect of group dynamics in surgical skill training".

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Participants are medical doctors and medical students who completed the study "The effect of group dynamics in surgical skill training" as part of the control group.
* The participants must be willing and able to give informed consent for participation in the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Participants who do not finish the basic open surgery course
* Medical doctors and medical students enrolled in the study "The effect of group dynamics in surgical skill training" that are randomized to dyad training

Primary outcomes:
measure: Differences between the participants' rating score of his/her own performance and the experts' rating score of the participants' performance
timeFrame: six months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Differences between the participants' rating score of his/her peers performances and experts' rating score of the peers' performances
timeFrame: six months
measure: Differences in the correlation of self-rating score and expert rating score between participants who are rated in the upper quartile by experts compared to participants who are rated in the lower quartile by experts
timeFrame: Six months
measure: Differences in the correlation of participants' rating scores and experts' rating scores between participants first and second rating of their peers performance.
timeFrame: six months
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