Measuring Quality of Medical Student Performance at Contextualizing Care
Aperçu de l'étude
Statut
Intervention / Traitement
Description détaillée
Clinical decision making requires two distinct skills: the ability to classify patients' conditions into diagnostic and management categories that permit the application of "best evidence" guidelines, and the ability to individualize or - more precisely - to contextualize care for patients whose circumstances and needs require variation from the standard approach to care. Most assessment in medical education places heavy emphasis on biomedical decision-making with little emphasis on how to incorporate contextual factors that may be essential to planning patients' care.
The goal of this project is to demonstrate and provide validity evidence for an innovative standardized patient (SP) method of assessing medical students in the clinical years on their ability to detect and respond to individual contextual factors in a patient encounter that overcomes the aforementioned challenges.
During the project, fourth-year medical students participating in a Medicine sub-internship will be randomized to an intervention group or a control group; the intervention group will receive additional training in the application of qualitative methodology to elicit and incorporate contextual factors in the clinical encounter. All students will participate in an SP assessment consisting of four SPs, blinded to trial arm, presenting cases with and without important biomedical and contextual factors in a counterbalanced factorial design. Performance will be compared between trial arms. In addition, performance will be compared with United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE) Step 2 clinical knowledge scores to determine whether contextualizing ability is independent of clinical knowledge, and consistency of performance across individual SP cases will be studied to determine the number of cases necessary to achieve sufficient reliability for the assessment to be used.
Type d'étude
Inscription (Réel)
Phase
- N'est pas applicable
Contacts et emplacements
Lieux d'étude
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Illinois
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Chicago, Illinois, États-Unis, 60612
- University of Illinois at Chicago
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Critères de participation
Critère d'éligibilité
Âges éligibles pour étudier
Accepte les volontaires sains
Sexes éligibles pour l'étude
La description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Fourth-year medical students at University of Illinois at Chicago
Plan d'étude
Comment l'étude est-elle conçue ?
Détails de conception
- Répartition: Randomisé
- Modèle interventionnel: Affectation parallèle
- Masquage: Seul
Armes et Interventions
Groupe de participants / Bras |
Intervention / Traitement |
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Aucune intervention: Contrôler
Aucune intervention
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Expérimental: Contextualization workshop
A four-hour course on contextualization.
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A four-hour course on contextualization.
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Que mesure l'étude ?
Principaux critères de jugement
Mesure des résultats |
Description de la mesure |
Délai |
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Developing an Appropriate Treatment Plan (for Contextual Variant of Encounters)
Délai: 1 month
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Probability that the learner writes a correct treatment plan for the standardized patient encounters undertaken at assessment at end of subinternship that include contextual red flags.
All learners are scheduled to see 4 encounters, based on combinations of four cases and four potential variants (baseline, biomedical, contextual, biocontextual) with counterbalancing by study month; each has a single contextual variant encounter.
Treatment plans are assessed by an investigator blinded to the learner's assignment to intervention or control group.
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1 month
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Probing for Contextual Issues
Délai: 1 month
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Probability that the learner probes contextual red flags raised in standardized patient encounters undertaken at assessment at end of subinternship.
Each learner undertakes four encounters, each of which presents a contextual red flag that may or may not be probed; in a small number of cases, the standardized patient was ill and the learner undertook fewer than four encounters as a result.
Assessment of probing is made by an investigator blinded to learner's assignment to group.
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1 month
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Probing for Biomedical Issues
Délai: 1 month
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Probability that the learner probes biomedical red flags raised in standardized patient encounters undertaken at assessment at end of subinternship.
Each learner undertakes four encounters, each of which presents a biomedical red flag that may or may not be probed; in a small number of cases, the standardized patient was ill and the learner undertook fewer than four encounters as a result.
Assessment of probing is made by an investigator blinded to learner's assignment to group.
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1 month
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Collaborateurs et enquêteurs
Parrainer
Collaborateurs
Les enquêteurs
- Chercheur principal: Alan Schwartz, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago
Publications et liens utiles
Dates d'enregistrement des études
Dates principales de l'étude
Début de l'étude
Achèvement primaire (Réel)
Achèvement de l'étude (Réel)
Dates d'inscription aux études
Première soumission
Première soumission répondant aux critères de contrôle qualité
Première publication (Estimation)
Mises à jour des dossiers d'étude
Dernière mise à jour publiée (Estimation)
Dernière mise à jour soumise répondant aux critères de contrôle qualité
Dernière vérification
Plus d'information
Termes liés à cette étude
Termes MeSH pertinents supplémentaires
Autres numéros d'identification d'étude
- NBME0708-12
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