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Online Distance Learning Outcomes Compared to Traditional Classroom Learning in Medicine

NCT03079349 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 274

Last updated 2017-03-14

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

To test whether the investigator's educational methodology is associated with increasing learning of participants. The investigators second objective is to test the hypothesis that learning in an online classroom would result in similar outcomes as the traditional classroom.

Conditions

  • Educational Problems

Interventions

OTHER

Medical Education

All candidates in the Active Comparator: Traditional Classroom will take a pre course test of the subject material followed by two 9-hour and one 8-hour educational sessions given over 3 consecutive days. Following the educational sessions all candidates in the Active Comparator: Traditional Classroom will take a post course test.

OTHER

Medical Intervention

All candidates in the Experimental: Online Synchronous Classroom will take a pre course test of the subject material followed by two 9-hour and one 8-hour educational sessions given over 3 consecutive days. Following the educational sessions all candidates in theExperimental: Online Synchronous Classroom will take a post course test.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Carrick Institute for Graduate Studies

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Frederick R Carrick, PhD · Bedfordshire Centre for Mental Health Research in Association with the University of Cambridge

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
21 Years
Max Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-01-01
Primary Completion
2016-07-01
Completion
2017-03-01

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