Mastery Learning in Communication Skills

NCT ID: NCT05979090

Last Updated: 2024-11-18

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 80 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2023-01-18
• Study Completion Date: 2028-01-01

Brief Summary

The goal of this study is to determine whether mastery learning in communication skills can improve skills in a simulated environment and have translational improvements in outcomes. The main questions it aims to answer are: 1. Does mastery learning improve skills in the simulation laboratory? 2. Does mastery learning improve clinical skills as seen by milestone performance? and 3 Does mastery learning improve burnout levels? The study is a multi-institutional randomized controlled trial of anesthesiology residents from five different residency programs. Participants will be randomized to mastery training in communication skills and standard of care, which is vicarious learning. Researchers will compare these two groups to see if mastery learning improves skills and translational outcomes.

Conditions

Communication Research; Communication, Personal; Burnout, Professional

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: OTHER
• Blinding Strategy: QUADRUPLE

Study Groups

Mastery Learning Group

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Mastery learning in communication skills

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Participants will undergo simulation-based mastery learning curriculum in difficult conversations.

Standard of Care Group

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Mastery learning in communication skills

Participants will undergo simulation-based mastery learning curriculum in difficult conversations.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Anesthesiology residents rotating at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Exclusion Criteria

• Participant refusal
• Study participants who have already undergone the mastery learning in difficult conversations course.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 20 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 60 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Heather Ballard, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Locations

Northwestern University Simulation Center

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

United States

Central Contacts

Heather Ballard, MD

Role: CONTACT

hballard@luriechildrens.org

3122275170

Facility Contacts

Jeff Barsuk, MD

Role: primary

jbarsuk@nm.org

312-503-7700

Daniel Cronin, BS

Role: backup

dcronin@northwestern.edu

312-503-7700

Other Identifiers

20235952

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id