Adapting Web-based Instruction to Baseline Knowledge of Physicians-in-training

Medical Education Clinical Trial

Official title:

Adapting Web-based Instruction to Learner Baseline Knowledge: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00466453
• Other study ID #: 05-004123
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2/Phase 3
• First received: April 25, 2007
• Last updated: January 14, 2010
• Start date: November 2005
• Est. completion date: August 2006

Study information

• Verified date: January 2010
• Source: Mayo Clinic
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to compare an adaptive Web-based learning system to a non-adaptive system for teaching physicians-in-training about ambulatory medicine.

Description:

Not all Web-based instruction is equally effective at facilitating learning. Adaptation to characteristics of individual learners may enhance Web-based learning by emulating a face-to-face teacher's response to a learner's needs. Learner baseline knowledge level is one variable to which Web-based instruction may adapt. We will enhance Web-based instructional modules used in the Internal Medicine resident continuity clinics so that they adapt to learner baseline knowledge. We will then compare the adaptive Web-based format to the standard format. We hypothesize that the adaptive format will have higher learning efficiency, and that achievement will be similar for the two groups. We also hypothesize that residents will prefer the adaptive format and find it to be more motivating than the standard format.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 144
• Est. completion date: August 2006
• Est. primary completion date: August 2006
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Internal medicine residents (Mayo-Rochester campus)

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment, Masking: Open Label

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Internship and Residency
• Medical Education
• Medical Training

Intervention

Behavioral:
• knowledge-adaptive Web-based instruction

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Mayo Clinic	Rochester	Minnesota

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Mayo Clinic

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Knowledge
Primary	Learning efficiency
Secondary	Format preference
Secondary	Time to complete module
Secondary	Motivation