Comparison of Two Summative Assessment Methods in Advanced Life Support Courses

Comparison of Two Summative Assessment Methods in Advanced Life Support Courses - a Randomized Controlled Trial

Several approaches for summative assessment during Advanced Life Support courses are used. The most commonly used method during European Resuscitation (ERC) Council Life Support Courses is that 1 instructor is miming a whole team, and the candidate has to lead this "team" through a scenario; another variant of the summative assessment (mainly used by American Heart Association (AHA) Courses) is with a group of students, where one student is the team leader to be assessed and the others are his team not being assessed. The second approach might be more realistic; however there is no evidence around with regard to effectiveness (pass/fail rate, ability to test non-technical skills (NTS)) or participant/assessor satisfaction.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Self-Assessment
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: assessment

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 428
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Switzerland
  • Bern, Switzerland
    • University of Bern

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• All medical students at the University of Bern, study year 2017/2018, 5th and 6th study year

Exclusion Criteria:

• Refusal to participate

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Other
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Other: ERC; Assessment as used by the European Resuscitation Council	Other: assessment; different assessments in both arms
Other: AHA; Assessment as used by the American Heart Association	Other: assessment; different assessments in both arms

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Team leadership	Subjective rating of team leadership	1 minute after the assessment is completed

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University Hospital Inselspital, Berne
• Investigators: Study Chair: Robert Greif, University of Bern, Switzerland

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): December 2, 2017
• Primary Completion (Actual): June 30, 2019
• Study Completion (Actual): December 31, 2019

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: December 11, 2017
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 25, 2018
• First Posted (Actual): January 26, 2018

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): February 5, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 3, 2020
• Last Verified: February 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: ILS_2017/2018

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No