COMPLETED

Surgical Ergonomics Education During Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Skills Training

Study Overview

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Description

The goal of this pilot study is to learn if a class and hands-on-practice of ergonomic body positions - or specific ways to move the body while working to prevent injury - is valuable to training obstetrics and gynecology doctors. The main questions the study team aims to answer are: * Will these lessons successfully teach the participants how to move bodies at work in a way that will prevent injury? * Will the participants feel that learning and practicing such lessons helps to avoid injury while at work? Researchers will compare training obstetrics and gynecology doctors that attend a class on ergonomics and have guided hands-on-practice of ergonomic body positions with training obstetrics and gynecology doctors that attend the class only to see if the first group learns and remembers how to move their bodies safely while working. All participants will attend a class that teaches basic ergonomic lessons before they are divided into two groups. Group 1 will practice common surgery skills on a model while being videotaped by an artificial intelligence application. The application will make a report on unsafe positions a participant does while practicing surgical skills. The Group 1 participant will then go over the report with one of the study supervisors to talk about ways that the participant can move safely while practicing the skills. The participant will then practice the skills one more time while being videotaped. The study supervisors will then compare the two reports to see if the participant improved. Group 2 will also practice common surgery skills on a model while being videotaped. Group 2 participants will not get to see the report that the application generates or speak with the study supervisors about ways to move safely while practicing the skills. There will be a follow up after two months to see if participants remembered what was learned during the class and during the hands-on practice lesson. All participants will again be videotaped. The study supervisors will compare the videos and reports from the last class to the most recent ones to see if the participants learned and remember how to move safely while working. Participants in both groups will take a quiz about the lessons learned in the class before and after the class to determine what had been learned from the lesson. A survey about how useful and helpful the class was and hands-on practice sessions were will also be completed.

Official Title

Instituting Surgical Ergonomics Education Into the Curriculum of Obstetrics and Gynecology Residents During Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Skills Training: A Pilot Study

Quick Facts

Study Start:2024-12-01
Study Completion:2025-05-22
Study Type:Not specified
Phase:Not Applicable
Enrollment:Not specified
Status:COMPLETED

Study ID

NCT06386601

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Ages Eligible for Study:20 Years
Sexes Eligible for Study:ALL
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:Yes
Standard Ages:ADULT, OLDER_ADULT
Inclusion CriteriaExclusion Criteria
  1. * Residents in Montefiore's OB/GYN residency program in post-graduate years 1 through 4 (PGY-1 - PGY-4)
  1. * Non-OB/GYN residents
  2. * Fellows in OB/GYN subspecialties
  3. * Medical students

Contacts and Locations

Principal Investigator

Kari Plewniak, MD
PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Montefiore Medical Center

Study Locations (Sites)

Montefiore Medical Center
The Bronx, New York, 10467
United States

Collaborators and Investigators

Sponsor: Montefiore Medical Center

  • Kari Plewniak, MD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Montefiore Medical Center

Study Record Dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Registration Dates

Study Start Date2024-12-01
Study Completion Date2025-05-22

Study Record Updates

Study Start Date2024-12-01
Study Completion Date2025-05-22

Terms related to this study

Keywords Provided by Researchers

  • surgical ergonomics education
  • obstetrics and gynecology
  • minimally invasive gynecologic surgery
  • residents

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

  • Work-related Injury
  • Work Related Upper Limb Disorder
  • Surgery
  • Educational Problems