Adapting Web-based Instruction to Baseline Knowledge of Physicians-in-training

NCT ID: NCT00466453

Last Updated: 2010-01-15

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: PHASE2/PHASE3
• Total Enrollment: 144 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2005-11-30
• Study Completion Date: 2006-08-31

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to compare an adaptive Web-based learning system to a non-adaptive system for teaching physicians-in-training about ambulatory medicine.

Detailed Description

Not all Web-based instruction is equally effective at facilitating learning. Adaptation to characteristics of individual learners may enhance Web-based learning by emulating a face-to-face teacher's response to a learner's needs. Learner baseline knowledge level is one variable to which Web-based instruction may adapt. We will enhance Web-based instructional modules used in the Internal Medicine resident continuity clinics so that they adapt to learner baseline knowledge. We will then compare the adaptive Web-based format to the standard format. We hypothesize that the adaptive format will have higher learning efficiency, and that achievement will be similar for the two groups. We also hypothesize that residents will prefer the adaptive format and find it to be more motivating than the standard format.

Conditions

Medical Education; Medical Training; Internship and Residency

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: CROSSOVER
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Interventions

knowledge-adaptive Web-based instruction

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Internal medicine residents (Mayo-Rochester campus)

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Mayo Clinic

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Principal Investigators

David A. Cook, M.D.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Mayo Clinic

Locations

Mayo Clinic

Rochester, Minnesota, United States

Countries

United States

References

Cook DA, Beckman TJ, Thomas KG, Thompson WG. Adapting web-based instruction to residents' knowledge improves learning efficiency: a randomized controlled trial. J Gen Intern Med. 2008 Jul;23(7):985-90. doi: 10.1007/s11606-008-0541-0.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 18612729 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

05-004123

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id