Medical Residents Learning Weight Management Counseling Skills

Summary

The goal of this study is to addresses the lack of weight management training physicians receive during their residency training. The main questions it aims to answer are:

* How affective is the MRWeight curriculum at increasing medical residents weight management counseling (WMC) skills.
* Evaluate residents' adoption of WMC skills in encounters with their patients
* what would be the best way to get residents to adopt the WMC skills Residents in the comparison group will receive a course on obesity and weight management. The residents in the intervention group will have to attend 2 informational sessions and will receive 6 email modules on WMC. Both groups will also take part in 3 assessments over the course of 18 months to see which group has better WMC skills.

Conditions

• Weight Management Counseling

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Didatic Session 1: Core Foundation Course

A 45-minute foundational presentation covering key Weight Management Counseling (WMC) concepts, obesity bias, and cultural humility facilitated by a trained clinician-educator at the residency program delivered at baseline.

BEHAVIORAL

The 3Ps Program

6 email modules delivered over months 2-8). Each 3P module will allow the resident to: (1) Prepare: Review relevant concepts and demonstration videos sent via an email to prepare for completing the VCA vignettes; (2) Practice: Respond to brief vignettes of various 5As WMC challenging scenarios by audio recording their spoken response on the VCA tool; and (3) Process: Reflect on actionable expert and crowdsourced analogue patient feedback on the quality of their responses to each VCA vignette.

BEHAVIORAL

Didactic session 2

(months 8-10): This 45-minute session will discuss key barriers to WMC adoption in clinical practice using real-world cases captured from residents facilitated by a trained clinician-educator at the residency program.

BEHAVIORAL

Email reinforcement

2 emails in months 10-12 covering key concepts in the preceding components.

BEHAVIORAL

PowerPoint of the foundational course

Residents will receive a core foundation slides on weight management counselling

Sponsors & Collaborators

• National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

  collaborator NIH

• Albert Einstein College of Medicine

  collaborator OTHER

• Penn State University

  collaborator OTHER

• The Methodist Hospital Research Institute

  collaborator OTHER

• Boston University

  collaborator OTHER

• Stanford University

  collaborator OTHER

• Temple University

  collaborator OTHER

• University of California, Davis

  collaborator OTHER

• Stony Brook University

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Massachusetts, Worcester

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• RAJANI SADASIVAM, PhD · UMass Chan Medical School

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

OTHER

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2024-06-10

Primary Completion

2026-06-30

Completion

2027-12-30

Countries

• United States

Study Locations