- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT01844609
China Obstetrics and Gynecology Journal Club (COG-JOCS)
An English Language Obstetrics and Gynecology Journal Club to Improve Medical English in China: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
This will be a randomized educational trial of an intensive journal club compared to a self study journal club (1:1 randomization). Randomization will take place after baseline.
The population will consist of 50 medical professionals at Heilongjiang University in Harbin China, who agree to participate in an 8 week educational intervention.
This study will assess the impact of applying English for Specific Purposes(ESP) pedagogy to foreign medical education and specifically evaluate learning in the field of obstetrics and gynecology(Ob-Gyn). ESP is a subdivision of a wider field, Language for Specific Purposes(LSP), defined as the area of inquiry and practice in the development of language programs for people who need a language to meet a predictable range of communicative needs. ESP emphasizes teaching language in context and designs a curriculum around the results of a needs assessment, to more accurately determine which language skills are of priority: listening, reading, speaking, and writing. Part of the theory behind ESP suggests that being able to use the vocabulary and structures that students learn in a meaningful context reinforces what is taught and increases motivation. Further, findings from a study by Okamura (2006) that examined how learners succeed in mastering scientific discourse in English showed that they focused on reading academic texts in their field to learn typical writing patterns. This is as opposed to junior learners who focused on mastering the English language by reading English texts written by authors from a breadth of fields. This application of ESP thus reflects how content-specific source articles could serve as rhetorical models and suggests that source articles are able to mediate scholarly writing and learning within the zone of proximal developmental; that is, learners are simultaneously gaining new content knowledge while increasing their skill base.
The proposed intervention is to design an ESP curriculum for medical professionals, specifically Ob-Gyn physicians and researchers at a Chinese Medical University, based on the journal club format and source articles. The study will quantitatively assess the impact of this model on student's ESP language comprehension as well as determine the necessity of the traditional "facilitator" role for a journal club whose purpose is to foster language literacy in non-English speaking universities.
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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Harbin, China
- First Affiliated Hospital Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine
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Pennsylvania
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Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States, 17033-0850
- Penn State Hershey Medical Center
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Chinese medical professional
Exclusion Criteria:
- English speaking fluency
- Non-Chinese speaking medical professional
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: Self Study Journal Club
25 Chinese Medical Professionals that will be participating in Self Study Journal Club Meetings three times a week for one hour for 8 weeks with interactive questions and answers and discussion of the journal articles.
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This Self Study Journal Club will read articles and prepare written answers to the study questions on their own time.
The participants will read 24 articles; 12 gynecology and 12 obstetrics, based on monthly journal clubs available online at the Obstetrics and Gynecology website.
The first and last article will serve as a basis for the oral and written exam in which they will be tested on comprehension, verbal and written Medical English.
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Experimental: Intensive Journal Club
25 Chinese Medical Professionals that will be participating Face to Face Journal Club Meetings three times a week for one hour for 8 weeks along with a native English speaking mentor.
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This Intensive Journal Club will read articles and prepare written answers to the study questions along with a fluent English speaker.
The participants will read 24 articles; 12 gynecology and 12 obstetrics, based on monthly journal clubs available online at the Obstetrics and Gynecology website.
Participants will prepare oral presentations of the studies and answers to the study questions.
They will have interactive sessions with this fluent English speaking monitor 3 times a week, one hour sessions for 8 weeks.
The first and last article will serve as a basis for the oral and written exam in which they will be tested on comprehension, verbal and written Medical English.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
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Change in score from baseline on a 30 question multiple choice exam (questions and answers will be read to the participants) based on APGO-CREOGH shelf exams.
Time Frame: Baseline to 8 weeks
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Baseline to 8 weeks
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Secondary Outcome Measures
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Change in score from baseline on a written (short answer) exam and on an oral exam.
Time Frame: Baseline to 8 weeks
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Baseline to 8 weeks
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Richard S Legro, M.D., Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Publications and helpful links
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Other Study ID Numbers
- 42338
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