Add-on Video-based Training on Mental Status Examination Skills — VV-RCT  

Medical Education Clinical Trial

Official title: Add-on Video-based Training: Effect on Mental Status Examination Skills in 5th Year Medical Students - an Educational RCT

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

The goal of this clinical triall is to investigate the training effect of access to authentic patient video on mental status examination performance among 5th year Danish medical students.

Aim:

To investigate if

• Students with add-on access to an authentic patient video e-library have improved Mental Status Examination precision compared to students that only have an add-on e-library with simulated patient videos.

• Number of videos watched correlate to mental status examination test scores.

Clinical Trial Description

The main study is a a two-armed, pragmatic cluster-randomised, superiority, partial-blinded, randomized controlled trial where the interventions are e-learning courses that serves as add-on learning material during the psychiatric clerkship.

Two student groups are compared. The experimental intervention(V) is a larger e-learning module, where the students have access to 23 authentic patient video vignettes and an e-module on mental status exam including demonstration videos with simulated patients (actor videos). The comparator students (N-V) only have access to the e-module on mental status exam including demonstration videos with simulated patients. All students participate in the regular Psychiatry curriculum i.e. 16 lectures in one week and psychiatric clerkship in three weeks.

As students have their clerkship in 10 different facilities across the Island of Zealand, we carry out cluster-randomization based on clerkship location.

Communication, recruitment and data management is carried out within the university teaching platform (CANVAS), by manual extraction, and by questionnaires distributed by SurveyXact. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Medical Education

• NCT number: NCT05795387
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Psychiatric Research Unit, Region Zealand, Denmark
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: January 31, 2021
• Completion date: March 7, 2023