Status:

COMPLETED

Global Learning: an Orbis Virtual-platform Evaluation Study

Lead Sponsor:

Orbis

Collaborating Sponsors:

Queen's University, Belfast

FundamentalVR

Conditions:

Surgical Education

Eligibility:

All Genders

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

Currently, surgical training is often conducted using the traditional "apprentice model", where a trainee observes a qualified surgeon and learns from him/her, and then the surgeon supervises the trai...

Detailed Description

Design Summary This research program involves a prospective, investigator-masked education-intervention randomized controlled study of intensive virtual reality (VR) simulation-based surgical educatio...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • VR Training Efficacy
  • Trainee ophthalmologist in collaborating institution.
  • Agree to undertake simulation procedure assessments
  • Agree to undertake and complete the intensive VR simulation training course.
  • Performed 0 MSICS as primary surgeon and assisted or part-performed less than 10 MSICS cases

Exclusion

  • • Trainee who performed 1 or more MSICS cataract surgeries as primary surgeon and assisted or part-performed 10 or more
  • Construct Validity
  • Inclusion Criteria
  • The first cohort is novice MSICS surgeons having performed 0 MSICS procedures as primary surgeon and assisted in less than 10.
  • The second cohort is proficient MSICS surgeons having performed a minimum of 1000 MSICS procedures
  • Exclusion Criteria
  • • MSICS surgeons having performed 1 or more MSICS cataract surgeries as primary surgeon and assisted or part-performed 10 or more; or MSICS surgeons who have performed less than 1000 MSICS procedures as primary surgeon.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

July 23 2021

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

July 29 2022

Estimated Enrollment :

44 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT04908072

Start Date

July 23 2021

End Date

July 29 2022

Last Update

August 4 2022

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London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

London, United Kingdom, WC1E 7HT