Learning Process of Fourth Year Medical Students During a Doctor-patient Relationship Training (APTHERA)

Learning Process of Fourth Year Medical Students During an Obligatory Doctor-patient Relationship Training, Including Role Play, Simulated Consultation, Balint Group and Courses: a Mixed Method Study

This study aims to explore learning process for undergraduate students in this doctor-patient relationship course. This study is one of the 3 studies included in a PhD on learning process during simulation training in psychiatry. The results of this 3 studies will aim at building a formative and summative assessment tool of competences specific to this pedagogic context.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Undergraduate Medical Students' Learning Process in Doctor-patient Relationship Training
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: lecture; Other: Simulation using Role play; Other: Discussion group; Other: Simulation using Simulated patient

Detailed Description

Methodology: Mixed method study with:

Qualitative : Grounded Theory analysis of :

• Semi-structured interview of learners and teachers
• Learning written traces of students

Quantitative features:

• Self-reported questionnaires on satisfaction
• Sociodemographical data and others questions

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 404

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• France
  • Paris, France, 75005
    • Paris Descartes University, Sorbonne Paris City, Faculty of Medicine

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (ADULT, OLDER_ADULT)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Probability Sample

Study Population

Undergraduate medical fourth-years student of Paris Descartes University. To diversify recruitment of students for semi-structured interview, investigators will conduct a drawing of lot, thanks to a computer programm, until data saturation.

Apprenticeship trace will also be drawn of lot, until data saturation.

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age > to 18 years old
• Undergraduate medical fourth-year student of Paris Descartes University
• Taking part in an obligatory doctor-patient relationship training, including role play, simulated consultation, Balint group and courses
• Draw by lot
• French or English language
• Agreement

Exclusion Criteria:

• Refusal of agreement
• Undergraduate medical fourth-year student of Paris Descartes University who couldn't take part in an obligatory doctor-patient relationship training, including role play, simulated consultation, Balint group and courses

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Learning processes	Learning processes according to students and teachers' perspective evaluated by face-to-face semi-structured interviews, faced with analysis of students' written apprenticeship traces	2 hours

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
supporting or preventing factors of learning	according to students and teachers' perspective evaluated by face-to-face semi-structured interviews, faced with analysis of students' written apprenticeship traces	2 hours

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
• Collaborators: Fondation Friedlander
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Marie-Aude PIOT, MD, PhD, Paris Descartes University, France; Study Chair: Bruno FALISSART, MD, PhD, Paris Saclay South University, Faculty of medicine, Orsay, France; Study Chair: Antoine TESNIERE, Md, PhD, University of Paris 5 - Rene Descartes

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (ACTUAL): June 2, 2018
• Primary Completion (ACTUAL): June 30, 2018
• Study Completion (ACTUAL): June 30, 2018

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: June 6, 2018
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 6, 2018
• First Posted (ACTUAL): June 18, 2018

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (ACTUAL): April 19, 2021
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 16, 2021
• Last Verified: April 1, 2021

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: psychology; learning; students; psychiatry; medical; Simulation training; role-play; educational
• Other Study ID Numbers: NI18026HLJ; 2018-A00385-50 (REGISTRY: ID-RCB)

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: YES

IPD Plan Description

For data about satisfaction and sociodemographic, it will be collected on a commun and secured base so as to support confrontation of analysis.

For qualitative data, they will be kept on secured informatics interface (of Dr Marie-Aude Piot) of University Hospital Institute "Mutualiste Montsouris". The qualitative researchers will have access to this base for data quotation.

• IPD Sharing Time Frame: From data collection (june-july 2018 to data saturation estimated at December 2018)
• IPD Sharing Access Criteria: Only researchers involved in data analysis
• IPD Sharing Supporting Information Type: STUDY_PROTOCOL

Drug and device information, study documents

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