Learning to Palpate the Child's Testicles Using Simulation

Trial statusNot yet recruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
AgeNot listed
SponsorUniversity Hospital, Angers

About this trial

Hypothesis is that better training of medical students in the examination of boy's external genitalia could improve the diagnosis of testicular position anomalies. To this end, investigators already have created a model to train testicle palpation and recognition of testicular position anomalies. So investigator set up a monocentric randomized controlled trial in wich the medical students will be randomized into 2 groups : a control group receiging only book-based theoretical instruction on the examination of the external genitalia and testicular position anomalies, and a mannequin group receibing, in addition to this conventionnal instruction, simulation training on the mannequin Medical students will then attend a consultation with a child whose reason for coming to the hospital is a testicular positioning anomaly. Students clinical examination will be scored by the consulting senior, and the final diagnosis retained by the student will be compared with that retained by the consulting senior. The aim is to show that medical students who have trained on this new model are better, in terms of clinical examination and diagnostic, than students in the control group.

Eligibility criteria

This trial accepts healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Medical student who volunteers to take part in the study during their pediatric or pediatric surgery clerkship or at the simulation center

Disqualifiers

student non in pediatric intership or non in pediatric surgery intership or non at the simulation center intership

Student with previous simulation training in the examination of the external genitalia of children

Trial design

Design model

Parallel

Treatments tested in this trial

  • testicular palpation training on a mannequin

    Procedure/Surgery

    Study of testicular palpation training on a mannequin on the ability to perform a testicular examination and diagnose testicular positioning abnormalities

Treatment groups

62 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups
Group A: Control groupNo intervention 0 interventions
Group B: mannequin simulation-based learning groupExperimental treatment 1 intervention

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

Rate of correct diagnoses

The primary outcome will be the rate of correct diagnoses made by the medical students compared with the diagnosis made by the consultant surgeon.

Time frame
Baseline

Secondary outcomes

1

clinical examination score from 0 to 20

to assess the student's clinical skills and the quality of the physical examination

Time frame
Baseline

Other outcomes

Locations

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