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Text4Peds: Short Message Service Evaluating Medical Student Education

NCT03346616 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 162

Last updated 2017-11-17

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

In this study, third year medical students on the pediatric clerkship will be randomized to receive either only written educational material (review journal articles) or written educational material plus daily text messages consisting of board style questions with online answers. The students' performance on the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) Pediatric Subject Evaluation will be compared between the two groups.

Conditions

  • Education, Medical, Undergraduate
  • SMS

Interventions

OTHER

Texting Group

See above in arm/group description

OTHER

Non Texting Group

See above in arm/group description

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • St. Louis University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Christopher Brownsworth, MD · St. Louis University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
50 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-05-02
Primary Completion
2017-04-28
Completion
2017-04-28

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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