Clinical trials: Skill Retention
Neurosurgery
Neurosurgical Skill Enhancement Using Transcranial Stimulation
Recent changes in medical training environments and restrictive work-hour regulations have greatly impacted trainees, limiting the number of opportunities to gain proficiency in procedural skills.
- Trial name
- LETS-LEARN (NCT02987816)
- Testing
- Anodal tDCS
- Volunteers
- 22 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Calgary
Retention of Basic Surgical Skills, Surgical Skills Performance Score
Comparison of Peyton's Four-Step Approach and Halsted's 'See One, Do One' Method for Teaching Basic Surgical Skills
This study aimed to compare Halsted's "See One, Do One" method with Peyton's Four-Step Approach for teaching basic surgical skills to undergraduate medical students in a simulated skills-laboratory setting at Department of…
- Trial name
- NCT07735026
- Testing
- Halsted's approach, Peyton's approach
- Where
- Pakistan
- Volunteers
- 50 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Dow University of Health Sciences
Laparoscopic Surgical Procedures
Enhancing Laparoscopic Skill Acquisition and Retention With Transcranial Direct-current Stimulation
Recent changes in medical training environments and restrictive work-hour regulations have greatly impacted trainees, limiting the number of opportunities to gain proficiency in procedural skills.
- Trial name
- NCT02756052
- Testing
- Anodal Transcranial direct-current stimulation
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 48 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Calgary
Long-term Retention of Advanced Cardiac Life Support Skills
Does Instruction on Cognitive Aid Use Improve Performance and Retention of Skills?
The purpose of this study is to investigate whether formal instruction on the use of cognitive aids in managing a crisis will result in better longterm retention of knowledge and skills.
- Trial name
- NCT01646372
- Testing
- Standard Simulation Based ACLS Refresher Teaching, Cognitive Aid based ACLS Refresher training
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 55 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Cerebral Palsy
The Impact of Dosing Parameters on Motor Skill Acquisition and Retention in Bilateral Cerebral Palsy (BCP)
A recent systematic review found that therapeutic interventions that apply principles of motor learning with intense practice improve functional upper extremity movement in children with unilateral CP.
- Trial name
- NCT03940989
- Testing
- HABIT-ILE
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 39 people
- Sponsor
- Shriners Hospitals for Children
Medical Education
Basic Life Support (BLS) and Barriers to Cross-Cultural Education
This is a randomized, multi-center intervention trial comparing two educational programs on healthcare provider performance in the Botswana national hospital system.
- Trial name
- BLSinBotswana (NCT00715767)
- Testing
- Assessment
- Volunteers
- 215 people
- Sponsor
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Neonatal Mortality, Maternal Mortality
Impact of New Tools of Simulation-enhanced Peer Learning on Neonatal and Maternal Mortality
In the vast majority of developing nations, frontline birth attendants are often the only care providers responsible for newborn care including newborn resuscitation, thermal care, feeding and administration of medications.
- Trial name
- Sim-II (NCT04904380)
- Testing
- Active peer learning
- Volunteers
- 3,456 people
- Sponsor
- Mbarara University of Science and Technology
Cardiac Arrest, Out-Of-Hospital
Gathering Evidence on Best Practices for Lay Rescuer CPR Training
The goal of this prospective trial is to compare CPR skill and attitudes in lay rescuers. The main question[s] it aims to answer are: What is the optimal training timing, duration, and frequency for lay rescuers that leads to CPR…
- Trial name
- NCT05908500
- Testing
- CPR Training, CPR Manikin Type
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 2,100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Nevada, Reno
Fractures, Bone
Learning Retention in Radiograph Interpretation
Learning retention after the deliberate practice of radiograph interpretation may be challenging for image types which are common enough to be clinically relevant but not so common that proficiency can be sustained through…
- Trial name
- NCT03370900
- Testing
- Testing
- Volunteers
- 233 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- The Hospital for Sick Children
Humans, Simulation Training
Using 'Guided-Discovery-Learning' to Optimize and Maximize Transfer of Surgical Simulation
The study is a randomized experimental study comparing two forms of learning; guided-discovery-learning and traditional instructional learning.
- Conditions
- Humans, Simulation Training, Problem-Based Learning, Clinical Competence
- Trial name
- GDLEFFICACY (NCT03684720)
- Testing
- Discover followed by direct instruction [DD]
- Where
- Denmark
- Volunteers
- 64 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Copenhagen Academy for Medical Education and Simulation
Tennis Motor Skill Learning
Attentional Focus and Feedback Timing in Children's Tennis Skill Learning
This study evaluated how different attentional focus instructions and feedback timing affect tennis motor skill learning in children aged 9 to 12 years.
- Trial name
- NCT07822035
- Testing
- Distal External Attentional Focus, Proximal External Attentional Focus, Internal Attentional Focus
- Where
- 4 sites in China
- Volunteers
- 160 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Guangzhou University
Ventilatory Failure
Neo RQI: The Effect of Neonatal Resuscitation Quality Improvement Cart Booster Training Skills Retention
This is a prospective multicenter randomized control trial to assess percentage mask leak six months post instructor led positive pressure ventilation skills training in providers who undergo booster training compared to those…
- Trial name
- NCT05147922
- Testing
- Booster Training with the Neonatal Resuscitation Quality Improvement Cart
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 155 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center