Digital Rectal Exam Proficiency Tool

Status unconfirmed

Conditions studied: Prostatic Hyperplasia, Prostate Cancer

In brief

A digital rectal exam proficiency tool, titled the 'DiRECT' was developed based on the consensus of 10 experts. The purpose of this study is to validate this tool for use in both undergraduate and graduate medical education .

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02278679

Run by

University of Virginia

People needed

410

Starts

2014-10-01

Expected to finish

2018-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-05-18

Who can join

Age: 30 and older, up to 90. Sex: male. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Subjects who are patients:
• Patients who are male and adults ≥ 30 years of age
• Standardized patients between the ages of 30-80 years participating in the University of Virginia School of Medicine activity for second-year students learning digital rectal exams
• Subjects who are clinicians:
• Attending physician, resident physician, or medical student scrubbed in for a prostatectomy or cystectomy, seeing patients in urology clinic, or participating in the School of Medicine activity for second year students learning digital rectal exams

You may not qualify if…

• List the criteria for exclusion
• Patients who do not have a prostate
• Patients with previous pelvic/perineal surgery
• Previously enrolled in this study

Where it is running

• University of Virginia Health System, Dept of Urology — Charlottesville, Virginia, United States (enrolling)

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