NCT06358105

Simulator Training to Improve Interventional Cardiologist Skills (STARTERS) Trial

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 400 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if simulator-based training will improve interventional cardiology fellows' skills and will improve patient outcomes. The main questions it aims to answer are: * Does this training improve specific operative parameters recorded during initial coronary interventions performed as first operators under senior supervision? * Will major and minor procedural complications be reduced after simulator-based training? Interventional cardiology fellows in their first year of training will be randomized between standard master-apprentice training or simulator-based training before starting their cath lab period. They will be supervised during their cath lab period as first operators by senior interventional cardiologists. During their first 50 procedures performed as supervised first operator, specific procedural data will be collected.

Conditions

• Coronary Artery Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Simulator-based training	A two-day training program will be performed before starting their cath lab period as interventional cardiology fellows
PROCEDURE	Standard training	Standard master-apprentice training interventional cardiology fellows' program during their cath lab period

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-11-15
• Primary completion: 2024-11-15
• Completion: 2025-11-15
• First posted: 2024-04-10
• Last updated: 2024-04-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy