Simulated skills by deliberate practice among medical students: peer-assisted learning vs learning with experts

• Grant number: 23/12197-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: November 01, 2023
• End date: October 31, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Medicine
• Principal Investigator: Alessandra Mazzo
• Grantee: Felipe Jun Kijima
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Medicina. Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Campus Bauru. Bauru , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This study aims to compare the training performed by specialists with the training performed by peers through PD among medical students and as specific objectives to identify interaction time, the amount of feedback and opinion of students during PD; assess and compare students' knowledge; assess and compare satisfaction and self-confidence with simulated practice; assess and compare performance in performing training; students' opinion about the activities carried out with experts and peers. Following the ethical criteria, a randomized clinical trial of the type pretest and post-test applied to the intervention group and random control group with students of a public university of São Paulo, who have not yet had contact with the theoretical content will be performedpractical of male delay bladder probing. The data will be collected after intervention of calibrated team of researchers that occurred during a workshop. In the workshop students will hold a dialogue class on the subject, participation of demonstration of the procedure and after training with experts and/ or students tutors. During and after the activities will respond to data collection instruments and a performance test. The comparison between the groups will be made through the evaluation of the performance, satisfaction, self-confidence and opinion of the participants. The research data will be analyzed according to original documents and descriptive statistics. The results will be presented in the form of graphs, tables and discursive reports.