Ob/Gyn Residency Podcast Curriculum

Assessment of An Ob/Gyn Residency Podcast Curriculum on Resident Knowledge and Satisfaction

This a randomized trial comparing the use of an organized podcast curriculum using the podcast, CREOGs Over Coffee, to usual teaching for first and second year Ob/Gyn residents on their obstetrics rotations. Residents at HUP and PAH will be included. Post intervention questionnaires will be administered at the end of each block to assess resident satisfaction with their block as well as confidence in their clinical care and skills. CREOG scores will be used to assess knowledge differences.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Learning; Lack of (Specific); Medical Education
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Podcast

Detailed Description

All PGY-1 and PGY-2 Ob/Gyn residents at the Hospital of University of Pennsylvania (HUP) and Pennsylvania Hospital (PAH) will be eligible and recruited for this randomized trial over the period of January 2021 January 2023 (period chosen as CREOGs are given in January, and trial will start immediately after next CREOG exam). There are currently 7 PGY-1 residents and 8 PGY-2 residents at HUP and 7 PGY-1 residents and 8 PGY-2 residents at PAH. In two academic years, with the addition of 7 PGY-1 residents at HUP and 7 PGY-1 residents at PAH, this will total 43 residents.

Residents will be randomized individually to receive a podcast curriculum vs. usual teaching on the labor floor rotations. Rotations where there will be a podcast curriculum include labor and delivery, night float, and Maternal Fetal Medicine. The details of the curriculum for each rotation will be listed below. At all times, all residents will have access to the podcast content, but those randomized to usual teaching will not be given an organized podcast curriculum for each rotation. Currently, usual teaching includes didactic teaching for the above topics on Thursday mornings (7am-12 pm), clinical teaching while on the rotations, simulation training, and self-learning.

Residents will be protected against undue influence or coercion as those that are administering the surveys and recruiting residents (FC) will not be involved in their residency reviews.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 34
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Pennsylvania
    • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104
      • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Residents that are PGY1-2 at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania Hospital in OB/Gyn

Exclusion Criteria:

• Those not meeting inclusion criteria

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Other
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Podcast Education; Residents will be given access to podcasts during their rotation They will complete a survey after each obstetrics rotation	Behavioral: Podcast; A list of podcasts that are specified for each rotation
No Intervention: Usual Teaching; Residents will have usual teaching They will complete a survey after each obstetrics rotation

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Resident Satisfaction	Satisfaction with rotation as seen on survey	Week after rotation
Residence Confidence	Confidence in themselves as seen on survey	Week after rotation

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
CREOG Scores	Scores based on percentiles of the CREOG (in-service exam) each year	January of each year within the study

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Pennsylvania
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Fei Cai, MD, University of Pennsylvania

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): January 20, 2020
• Primary Completion (Actual): August 20, 2022
• Study Completion (Actual): August 20, 2022

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: June 13, 2021
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 13, 2021
• First Posted (Actual): June 21, 2021

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): October 7, 2022
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 6, 2022
• Last Verified: October 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Medical education; Graduate medical education; Obstetrics; Residency; Podcast
• Other Study ID Numbers: 844674

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
• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: No