Implementation of a Smartphone Application in Medical Education
NCT ID: NCT02723136
Last Updated: 2016-05-17
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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
NA
80 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2016-04-30
2016-05-31
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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This study aims to address whether a smartphone application designed to review key concepts in internal medicine and its subspecialties might increase the overall academic performance of medical students. Eligible participants will be interns in their final year of study who own a smartphone with an operating system based in Android® or iOS®. Only those that do not wish to participate will be excluded from this trial.
All participants will undergo a baseline test aimed at addressing their knowledge of internal medicine and its subspecialties. Multiple choice questions will be used in this test, which have been developed by a team of internists with 5 years experience in formulating them. These questions have also been designed to resemble a national examination that is required to practice medicine in the Chilean Public Health System, and have shown a good correlation with performance in the latter exam in previous reports. In order to optimise adherence, the application will also provide feedback to its user, showing overall performance in terms of correct answers and time required to solve a clinical vignette.
After this test, participants will be randomised to receive the smartphone application by a statistician. Investigators will be kept unaware of the allocation sequence used in this trial. The contents of the application will include clinical vignettes that will review core concepts in internal medicine and its subspecialties. After 4 weeks, participants will undergo a second test and the overall performance between groups will be compared. Both outcome assessors and statisticians will be kept unaware of participant allocation. Data regarding the overall application use will be collected as well.
Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
DOUBLE
Study Groups
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Smartphone application
Participants allocated to this arm will receive a smartphone application developed to assist and guide the study of internal medicine and its subspecialties. The application will provide feedback to participants regarding their overall performance in terms of correct answers and the overall time required to solve a clinical vignette.
Smartphone Application
Smartphone application developed by internists and engineers. Will be made available on iOS(R) and Android(R) operating systems.
Usual care
Students allocated to this arm will not receive any further assistance in studying for this trial's tests.
No interventions assigned to this group
Interventions
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Smartphone Application
Smartphone application developed by internists and engineers. Will be made available on iOS(R) and Android(R) operating systems.
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* Owns a smartphone with an Android® or iOs®-based operating system
Exclusion Criteria
18 Years
ALL
Yes
Sponsors
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Laboratorio de Ingeniería y Tecnología (LABITEC)
UNKNOWN
Universidad de Valparaiso
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Felipe Martinez
Professor
Principal Investigators
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Felipe Martinez, M.D., M.Sc.
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Universidad de Valparaiso
Locations
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Campus de la Salud, Universidad de Valparaiso
Reñaca, Viña Del Mar, Chile
Countries
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References
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Mosa AS, Yoo I, Sheets L. A systematic review of healthcare applications for smartphones. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2012 Jul 10;12:67. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-12-67.
Shah J, Haq U, Bashir A, Shah SA. Awareness of academic use of smartphones and medical apps among medical students in a private medical college? J Pak Med Assoc. 2016 Feb;66(2):184-6.
Baumgart DC. Smartphones in clinical practice, medical education, and research. Arch Intern Med. 2011 Jul 25;171(14):1294-6. doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.320. No abstract available.
Rung A, Warnke F, Mattheos N. Investigating the use of smartphones for learning purposes by Australian dental students. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth. 2014 Apr 30;2(2):e20. doi: 10.2196/mhealth.3120.
O'Connor P, Byrne D, Butt M, Offiah G, Lydon S, Mc Inerney K, Stewart B, Kerin MJ. Interns and their smartphones: use for clinical practice. Postgrad Med J. 2014 Feb;90(1060):75-9. doi: 10.1136/postgradmedj-2013-131930. Epub 2013 Nov 15.
Related Links
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National Examination that enables physicians to practice medicine in the public health system
Other Identifiers
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CEC098-16
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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