Intimidation Clinical Trial
Official title:
Increasing Reporting of Intimidation of Medical Students With Simulation: a Randomised Controlled Trial
Intimidation of medical students by health care professionals is a well-documented
phenomenon. Raising awareness of what constitutes intimidation is a preferred method for
preventing it through increased reporting. Simulation is a novel method of raising awareness
of intimidation.
This is a randomised controlled trial comparing the effectiveness of simulation (involving
actors), an educational video and no intervention, as adjuncts to group discussion, on
students' ability to identify and report intimidation. Medical students from the University
of Montreal in Montreal, Canada, will be recruited at the beginning of surgical clerkship.
They will complete a standardized and validated pre-intervention questionnaire on their
experience with intimidation consisting of multiple choice questions and short answers. They
will be randomised to one of the three interventions lasting 70 minutes that will be followed
by a 20-minute standardized discussion on intimidation with all students participating
together. At the end of their surgical rotation, they will complete a similar
post-intervention questionnaire with additional questions pertaining to the reporting of
intimidation.
Differences in intimidation reporting after the intervention as well as a before and after
comparison of the "Negative Acts Questionnaire" score will be studied.
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