U.S., Nov. 14 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07936136) titled 'A Structured Training Program for General Surgery Residents Learning Laparoscopic Sigmoid Colectomy' on Nov. 09.
Brief Summary: This study compares two ways of teaching general surgery residents how to perform the key steps of laparoscopic sigmoid colectomy, an operation to remove part of the large bowel. The main question is whether a structured program combining theory, simulation, supervised clinical practice, video review, and guided reflection improves performance on a standardized simulated surgical task compared with usual teaching.
A total of 104 second-year general surgery residents were randomly assigned in equal numbers ...