Patient Safety Skills for Medical Students

NCT ID: NCT03221153

Last Updated: 2017-07-18

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

140 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2016-08-25

Study Completion Date

2017-09-01

Brief Summary

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In this project, the authors aim to evaluate the use of high fidelity simulation as a method of evaluation of general skills in fifth year medical students about patient quality and safety in a hospital setting.

Detailed Description

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Undergraduate training in patient safety and healthcare quality is often overlooked by medical curricula.

Simulation techniques have been used in different subjects as a support for learning invasive techniques in surgical areas, but it has not been used to improve knowledge and performance on patient quality domains that would be applied in real life scenarios.

This project is a randomized trial for medical students undertaking the course in "Quality and Patient Safety". The authors will randomized students at the beginning of each rotation into two groups: a) an intervention group (where students will take the simulation and will be evaluated by a final written exam); and b) a control group (where students will take only the usual teaching in classrooms and will be evaluated with the same written exam). Furthermore, students will be asked to fill a questionnaire to obtain their attitudes and knowledge about the topics in quality and safety in healthcare.

Conditions

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Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Randomized controlled trial of two educational interventions
Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors
Masking only at the level of outcome assessor as this is an educational intervention.

Study Groups

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No Intervention

This is the control group. Participants in this group will take the usual course without simulation techniques.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Simulation

This is the intervention group. Participants in this group will to take the course with simulation techniques.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Simulation techique

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

The intervention group will be in a simulated case with mock scenarios and interaction by 'acting out' the clinical situation where knowledge and attitudes about safety in hospitalized patients will be assessed.

Interventions

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Simulation techique

The intervention group will be in a simulated case with mock scenarios and interaction by 'acting out' the clinical situation where knowledge and attitudes about safety in hospitalized patients will be assessed.

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* 5th year medical students enrolled in the course "Quality and Patient Safety" in the Tecnológico de Monterrey School of Medicine, Campus Monterrey.
Minimum Eligible Age

21 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

24 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterey

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Karla Patricia Pacheco Alvarado

MD

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Karla Pacheco, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterey

Locations

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Tecnologico de Monterrey School of Medicine

Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Mexico

Central Contacts

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Karla Pachecho, MD

Role: CONTACT

+528120339000 ext. 9716

Ana Villalpando

Role: CONTACT

+5281 88882107

Facility Contacts

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Federico Ramos, PhD

Role: primary

+528188882107

References

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Miller GE. The assessment of clinical skills/competence/performance. Acad Med. 1990 Sep;65(9 Suppl):S63-7. doi: 10.1097/00001888-199009000-00045. No abstract available.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 2400509 (View on PubMed)

Sperling JD, Clark S, Kang Y. Teaching medical students a clinical approach to altered mental status: simulation enhances traditional curriculum. Med Educ Online. 2013 Apr 3;18:1-8. doi: 10.3402/meo.v18i0.19775.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 23561054 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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EGSPQS

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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