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Measuring Quality of Medical Student Performance at Contextualizing Care

NCT01088438 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 189

Last updated 2011-05-06

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Summary

During the project, fourth-year medical students participating in a Medicine sub-internship will be randomized to an intervention group or a control group; the intervention group will receive additional training in the application of qualitative methodology to elicit and incorporate contextual factors in the clinical encounter. All students will participate in an SP assessment consisting of four standardized patients (SPs), blinded to trial arm, presenting cases with and without important biomedical and contextual factors in a counterbalanced factorial design. Performance will be compared between trial arms; the investigators hypothesize better performance in the intervention arm. In addition, performance will be compared with United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE) Step 2 clinical knowledge scores to determine whether contextualizing ability is independent of clinical knowledge, and consistency of performance across individual SP cases will be studied to determine the number of cases necessary to achieve sufficient reliability for the assessment to be used.

Conditions

  • Education, Medical, Undergraduate
  • Medical History Taking
  • Diagnosis

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Contextualization workshop

A four-hour course on contextualization.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The National Board of Medical Examiners

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Illinois at Chicago

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Alan Schwartz, PhD · University of Illinois at Chicago

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
21 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-07-31
Primary Completion
2010-03-31
Completion
2010-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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