European Postgraduate Training in Geriatric Medicine

Education Clinical Trial

Official title:

European Postgraduate Training in Geriatric Medicine

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02377908
• Other study ID #: KS-RRW EU survey
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• First received: February 17, 2015
• Last updated: February 26, 2015
• Start date: October 2013
• Est. completion date: March 2015

Study information

• Verified date: February 2015
• Source: Klinikum Nürnberg
• Contact: Katrin Singler, MD
• Email: katrin.singler[@]gmx.de
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Germany: Ethics Commission
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The objective of the study is to give a structured update on geriatric postgraduate education throughout Europe. The study will be performed as a cross-sectional structured quantitative online survey with qualitative comments. The survey content covers structural items, content and educational aspects of geriatric specialty training in European countries.

Description:

The study is performed as a cross-sectional structured quantitative survey leaving space for qualitative comments. The survey content covers structural items, content and educational aspects of geriatric specialty training in European countries. To prove feasibility in the questionnaire setting and time management the survey will be piloted in five international experts in geriatric medicine. Questions in the survey are closed with the possibility to give a free comment.Validity of individual data collection will be controlled by repeated hidden content within different questions.

Experts in the field of geriatric medicine and members of one of the organizations European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS), European Academy for the Medicine of Ageing (EAMA) or European Union Geriatric Medicine Society (EUGMS) and a strong personal focus of interest in postgraduate training are contacted by the survey coordinator and invited to participate in the survey personally and via E-mail. The survey will be performed online using the following software (http://www.surveyxact.com/) . To reassure data quality, the survey will be sent for double checks within nations.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 47
• Est. completion date: March 2015
• Est. primary completion date: June 2014
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

Experts in geriatric medicine and member of one of the organizations European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS), European Academy for the Medicine of Ageing (EAMA) or European Union Geriatric Medicine Society (EUGMS).

Exclusion Criteria:

Study Design

Time Perspective: Cross-Sectional

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Education
• Geriatrics

Intervention

Other:
• Online Survey
Online questionaire submitted to experts in geriatrics in different European countries. 12-item survey.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Germany	Insitute for Biomedicine of Aging	Nuremberg	Bavaria

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Klinikum Nürnberg	Medical University of Graz

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Germany, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	situation of geriatric postgraduate education	Evaluate a structured update on geriatric postgraduate education throughout Europe in order to assess the need for further developments in geriatric postgraduate education.	until June 2014	No