Patient Safety Skills for Medical Students

Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice Clinical Trial

Official title:

Simulation for the Evaluation of General Skills in Patient Safety and Quality in Undergraduate Medical Students

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03221153
• Other study ID #: EGSPQS
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• First received: July 29, 2016
• Last updated: July 14, 2017
• Start date: August 25, 2016
• Est. completion date: September 1, 2017

Study information

• Verified date: July 2017
• Source: Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterey
• Contact: Karla Pachecho, MD
• Phone: +528120339000
• Email: karla.pacheco[@]itesm.mx
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

In this project, the authors aim to evaluate the use of high fidelity simulation as a method of evaluation of general skills in fifth year medical students about patient quality and safety in a hospital setting.

Description:

Undergraduate training in patient safety and healthcare quality is often overlooked by medical curricula.

Simulation techniques have been used in different subjects as a support for learning invasive techniques in surgical areas, but it has not been used to improve knowledge and performance on patient quality domains that would be applied in real life scenarios.

This project is a randomized trial for medical students undertaking the course in "Quality and Patient Safety". The authors will randomized students at the beginning of each rotation into two groups: a) an intervention group (where students will take the simulation and will be evaluated by a final written exam); and b) a control group (where students will take only the usual teaching in classrooms and will be evaluated with the same written exam). Furthermore, students will be asked to fill a questionnaire to obtain their attitudes and knowledge about the topics in quality and safety in healthcare.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 140
• Est. completion date: September 1, 2017
• Est. primary completion date: September 1, 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 21 Years to 24 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• 5th year medical students enrolled in the course "Quality and Patient Safety" in the Tecnológico de Monterrey School of Medicine, Campus Monterrey.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Intervention

Procedure:
• Simulation techique
The intervention group will be in a simulated case with mock scenarios and interaction by 'acting out' the clinical situation where knowledge and attitudes about safety in hospitalized patients will be assessed.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Mexico	Tecnologico de Monterrey School of Medicine	Monterrey	Nuevo Leon

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterey

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Mexico, 

References & Publications (2)

Miller GE. The assessment of clinical skills/competence/performance. Acad Med. 1990 Sep;65(9 Suppl):S63-7. — View Citation

Sperling JD, Clark S, Kang Y. Teaching medical students a clinical approach to altered mental status: simulation enhances traditional curriculum. Med Educ Online. 2013 Apr 3;18:1-8. doi: 10.3402/meo.v18i0.19775. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Mean score of skills and knowledge about quality and patient safety	Assessed by questionnaire evaluation of knowledge in the area of patient safety and quality of healthcare using a multiple choice question examination and a survey. This outcome is measured in a scale from 0 to 100 individually and it will be averaged throughout each group.	One year
Secondary	Qualitative Evaluation of Attitudes and preferences towards patient safety	Assessed by interview of individuals about their attitudes and behaviours	One year