Learning to Palpate the Child's Testicles Using Simulation
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: testicular palpation training on a mannequin.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Testicular Positioning Anomalies, Cryptorchidism. Basic parameters: No limits · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Center list to be confirmed — check the primary protocol.
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Overview
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.
Interventions
- Procedure testicular palpation training on a mannequin
Study of testicular palpation training on a mannequin on the ability to perform a testicular examination and diagnose testicular positioning abnormalities
Primary outcome measures
- Rate of correct diagnoses [Time frame: Baseline]
Secondary outcome measures (1)
- clinical examination score from 0 to 20 [Time frame: Baseline]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Medical student who volunteers to take part in the study during their pediatric or pediatric surgery clerkship or at the simulation center
Exclusion criteria
- 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
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Diagnostic
Study locations
Center list to be confirmed — check the primary protocol.
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07106502 · 49RC24_0256