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NCT number NCT03312218
Other study ID # The Study Guide Trial 2017
Secondary ID
Status Completed
Phase N/A
First received
Last updated
Start date October 18, 2017
Est. completion date July 1, 2019

Study information

Verified date January 2021
Source Jewish General Hospital
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Spaced education is a promising theory-driven strategy to improve clinical competence. Our aim is to improve the clinical competence of Family Physicians, an outcome associated with the quality of care delivered to Canadians.


Description:

Research Question: Among family medicine residents, does enhanced feedback through an app providing alerts and test questions (spaced education), compared to the same app without alerts and enhanced feedback (no spaced education), improve competence as measured by the certification examination? In building this proposal for a definitive trial, the investigators have support from coast to coast. In addition to key clinician educators, the team includes knowledge users from the organization responsible for the certification examination in Family Medicine, methodologists and experienced researchers who study how mobile apps can promote engagement with clinical information. The team has the right blend of expertise in medical education and cluster randomized trials. Approach and Methods: The investigators will follow an organizational participatory research approach, and propose a cluster randomized controlled trial. Setting: All incoming family medicine residents in Canada will be eligible to participate. Intervention site residents will receive alerts through an app to adaptively reinforce the learning of clinical content based on cases and test questions (spaced education). Residents in the control group will receive the same app providing identical clinical cases and test questions-on-demand, but with alerts inactivated (no spaced education). The primary outcome will be scores on the certification examination. This routinely collected data will be provided to the team by the College of Family Physicians of Canada. Expected Results and Conclusion: Spaced education will improve examination scores. This will inform educational practice by providing evidence to optimize the training of residents.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Completed
Enrollment 634
Est. completion date July 1, 2019
Est. primary completion date May 31, 2019
Accepts healthy volunteers Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Gender All
Age group N/A and older
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria: - incoming family medicine residents in Canada (July 2017) Exclusion Criteria: - not a family medicine resident - did not start residency on July 1, 2017

Study Design


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


Intervention

Behavioral:
Spaced educational intervention
A spaced educational intervention will be provided to participants

Locations

Country Name City State
Canada McGill University Montréal Quebec

Sponsors (13)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
Jewish General Hospital College of Family Physicians of Canada, McMaster University, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Université de Montréal, Université de Sherbrooke, University of Alberta, University of British Columbia, University of Calgary, University of Ottawa, University of Toronto, Western University, Canada

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Canada, 

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Scores on the Certification Examination This is the score on the written component of the examination of the College of Family Physicians of Canada. This refers to the grade/score given to participants on the Short Answer Management Problems (SAMP) section of the exam ranging from 0 to 100. Higher values represent a better outcome. The score minimum observed was 53.9 and max is 84.4 for this study. 2 years
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