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Whole-task Hybrid Simulation Improves Medical Student Competence in Cardiology Clerkship

NCT05895799 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 77

Last updated 2023-06-09

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Summary

The goal of this randomized controlled waitlist trial is to assess the utility of expert tuition with hybrid simulation and repeated peer grading on medical student learning and performance in cardiology long-case examinations. The primary aim of this research is to assess the effects of time, individual teaching with an expert trainer, and repeated peer assessment on students' performance scores in sequential formative long-case examinations in cardiology. The secondary aims are: (a) to assess to what degree performance scores change over time with respect to the intervention group, and (b) to assess for any change in the level of inter-observer variability over time.

Participants will be randomized into two groups and undertake three formative long-case examinations in cardiology with a hybrid patient. Each group will have tuition from an expert trainer in a randomized controlled waitlist design. The investigators will compare groups to see if the tuition from a clinical expert has an effect on participants' performance.

Conditions

  • Valvular Heart Disease

Interventions

OTHER

Tuition from a expert clinical trainer

Each group was initially provided with an online tutorial on the complete physical examination of the cardiovascular system as performed on a standardized patient by the trainer. At the beginning of each session, the trainer performed the examination on a hybrid patient wearing the auscultation vest and provided additional teaching, explanations, and rationale. Following the demonstration, each participant was invited to perform repeated physical examinations in front of their peers with real-time one-to-one feedback from the trainer. After each performance, the participant was encouraged to critique their own performance(s), peers were invited to provide some insights, and the trainer gave some overall feedback. At the end of the session and after each participant had had the opportunity to perform the complete examination at least once, the participants were taken through a range of abnormal signs using the auscultation vest with explanations provided by the trainer.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown

    collaborator OTHER

  • Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Claire Condron, PhD · RCSI

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-01-01
Primary Completion
2021-11-30
Completion
2022-06-06

Countries

  • Ireland

Study Locations

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