Measuring Quality of Medical Student Performance at Contextualizing Care
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Intervenção / Tratamento
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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.
Tipo de estudo
Inscrição (Real)
Estágio
- Não aplicável
Contactos e Locais
Locais de estudo
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Illinois
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Chicago, Illinois, Estados Unidos, 60612
- University of Illinois at Chicago
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Critérios de participação
Critérios de elegibilidade
Idades elegíveis para estudo
Aceita Voluntários Saudáveis
Gêneros Elegíveis para o Estudo
Descrição
Inclusion Criteria:
- Fourth-year medical students at University of Illinois at Chicago
Plano de estudo
Como o estudo é projetado?
Detalhes do projeto
- Alocação: Randomizado
- Modelo Intervencional: Atribuição Paralela
- Mascaramento: Solteiro
Armas e Intervenções
Grupo de Participantes / Braço |
Intervenção / Tratamento |
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Sem intervenção: Ao controle
Sem intervenção
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Experimental: Contextualization workshop
A four-hour course on contextualization.
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A four-hour course on contextualization.
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O que o estudo está medindo?
Medidas de resultados primários
Medida de resultado |
Descrição da medida |
Prazo |
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Developing an Appropriate Treatment Plan (for Contextual Variant of Encounters)
Prazo: 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
Prazo: 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
Prazo: 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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Colaboradores e Investigadores
Patrocinador
Colaboradores
Investigadores
- Investigador principal: Alan Schwartz, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago
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Datas Principais do Estudo
Início do estudo
Conclusão Primária (Real)
Conclusão do estudo (Real)
Datas de inscrição no estudo
Enviado pela primeira vez
Enviado pela primeira vez que atendeu aos critérios de CQ
Primeira postagem (Estimativa)
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Última Atualização Postada (Estimativa)
Última atualização enviada que atendeu aos critérios de controle de qualidade
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Outros números de identificação do estudo
- NBME0708-12
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