Augmented Terminal Feedback in Surgical Education
Research type
Research Study
Full title
To study predictors of assessment for developing augmented terminal feedback for surgical trainees, in laparoscopic robotic colorectal surgery
IRAS ID
330701
Contact name
Mohammad Riaz
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
RD&I, NHS Highland
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 11 months, 30 days
Research summary
In the current surgical training environment, live assessment coupled with verbal feedback is carried out during a long surgical operation. A verbal feedback and written assessment is recorded at the end of the operation called procedure based assessment (PBA). It is a trainer dependent exercise where complexities of a long, technically demanding procedure are translated in words and expected a ‘cognitive overloaded’ trainee to gain the expected level of understanding along with technical skill competence.
Laparoscopic technology exposed this fundamental weakness in current practices and offered a chance to record the video of surgical procedure and have an assessment performed on it; hence, helped to develop a method to learn from procedural videos.
Cognitive psychologists and educationalists are convinced that technically demanding skills are best learnt when trainee’s own performance is recorded and feedback is provided on the video of the task at the end of the task. Preparing a feedback on more than four to five hours long procedure has never been technically feasible; Hence, the lack of its existence.This research theorised a unique method of studying ‘predictors of assessment’ during a complex surgical procedure, translating them into ‘augmented terminal feedback’ i.e., producing feedback on the video at the end of the procedure.
This study aims to develop a purpose built software and integrate the predictors of assessment to develop an augmented feedback. This software is proposed to help assess the surgical skill and translate this assessment into a feedback for future learning of surgical trainees.
REC name
West of Scotland REC 1
REC reference
23/WS/0124
Date of REC Opinion
2 Aug 2023
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion