Education, Medical Clinical Trial
Official title:
Implementing a Smartphone Application to Optimise Academic Performance Among Medical Students: A Randomised Trial
This study addresses the effectiveness of a smartphone application to improve academic performance among medical students. Participants will be randomised to receive an application developed by a team of physicians and engineers, designed to review key concepts in internal medicine and its subspecialties. The primary outcome will be the number of correct answers in a multiple choice test 4 weeks after randomisation.
Smartphones are devices that are commonly used by medical professionals. Their adoption by
students and physicians is increasing, with reported use rates of roughly 85%. Reasons
behind these implementation rates stem from their versatility, since this technology
provides mobile communications and advanced informatics in a handheld device that can be
used at the bedside. However, data regarding their use in medical education is scarce.
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.
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Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
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