NCT06037616

Teaching Simple Skin Sutures to Medical Students

Comparison of Methods for Teaching Simple Skin Sutures to Medical Students: a Randomized Blinded Controlled Study

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 200 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Learning the simple skin suture is part of the surgical basics required for all medical students, including future general practitioners. However, there is no data in the educational literature to help choose the best learning technique. Several teams have offered video learning showing the correct technique. Level n+1 peer learning was also proposed, without and with supervision by an expert. The investigators propose to carry out a prospective study comparing the quality of sutures and knowledge according to the chosen learning method.

Detailed description

Send to medical student a teaching package two weeks before simulation session to practice skin suture. There are 4 teaching packages related to 4 interventional groups The skin suture performed by medical students are recorded on video. 1 video per medical student. The skin sutures recorded in these video are rated by two blinded expert with evaluation grid. After the simulation session, the students complete knowledge, self-confidence, satisfaction and mental load questionnaires

Conditions

• Medical Students

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	powerpoint and tutor	Powerpoint on indication of skin suture and tutor for the skill to perform skin suture
OTHER	video skill	Video showing skill to perform a skin suture
OTHER	video errors	Video showing errors of skin suture

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-08-30
• Primary completion: 2023-09-30
• Completion: 2023-12-30
• First posted: 2023-09-14
• Last updated: 2023-09-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France