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Integrated Basic Science Within the Instructional Design of Pattern Recognition Training

NCT05087485 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 87

Last updated 2022-03-16

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Summary

Investigators hypothesize that the introduction of basic science explanations within the instructional design of case-based training in visual diagnostics will improve students' learning curves, retention, and retrieval of knowledge/skill following a washout period.

Research question:

In a group of medical students with limited dermatological training, what is the effect of integrating biomedical causal explanations of visual criteria during a prolonged case-based skin cancer training program in visual pattern recognition when compared with an identical instructional design without biomedical explanations? How will the displacement of students' cognitive resources from practicing pattern recognition towards understanding the pattern, affect their learning behavior, learning curve (accuracy and time per diagnosis), and retrieval of pattern recognition skills following a washout period?

The above-mentioned research questions will be tested through a randomized trial with an allocation ratio of 1:1. All participants will be trained in skin cancer diagnostics through a mobile application that offers simulation training and learning through written modules about the various differential diagnoses. Approximately half of the participants will be subject to a written content that displays the dermoscopic visual criteria without an explanation while the remaining half will be subject to the dermoscopic criteria + an explanation of the underlying cause. The training program consists of 500 training cases, a 14 day wash-out period, and a final training session of 100 cases.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

education

digital education in skin cancer diagnostics

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Herlev Hospital

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
22 Years
Max Age
100 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-07-10
Primary Completion
2021-11-20
Completion
2021-11-22

Countries

  • Denmark

Study Locations

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