Clinical trials: Education, Medical
Abortion Early, Abortion in First Trimester
Delivery of Audiovisual Information on Early Medical Abortion
The majority of abortions in the United Kingdom (UK) are performed before 9 weeks (63 days) gestation using a method known as Early Medical Abortion (EMA).
- Trial name
- EMAVID (NCT03417362)
- Testing
- Animation
- Where
- 3 sites in France, Sweden and 1 more
- Volunteers
- 174 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- NHS Lothian
Out-Of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
Machine Learning Assisted Recognition of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest During Emergency Calls.
Emergency medical Services Copenhagen has developed a machine learning model that analyzes the calls to 1-1-2 (9-1-1) in real time. The model are able to recognize calls where a cardiac arrest is suspected.
- Trial name
- NCT04219306
- Testing
- Alert on dispatchers screen 'Suspect cardiac arrest'
- Where
- Denmark
- Volunteers
- 5,242 people
- Sponsor
- Emergency Medical Services, Capital Region, Denmark
Medical Education
Training for Transfer by Contextual Variation
The goal of this randomized study is to investigate the effect of introducing contextual variation on transfer when learning a technical skill in a group of medical students.
- Trial name
- NCT05834374
- Testing
- Contextual variation, Maximum affordances
- Where
- Denmark
- Volunteers
- 110 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet
Unspecified Adult Solid Tumor, Protocol Specific
Health Education in Improving the Understanding of Medical Information
RATIONALE: Understanding the risk of disease and prevention and screening activities to lower disease risk may help individuals make informed medical decisions.
- Trial name
- NCT00387998
- Testing
- AHRQ staying healthy booklet, Risk primer
- Volunteers
- 555 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Virtual Reality and Medical Education
Testing Efficacy of VR in Medical Education
Recent emergence and commercialization of immersive virtual reality (VR) shows great promise in its application to medical education.
- Trial name
- NCT04480489
- Testing
- VR, Traditional
- Volunteers
- 40 people
- Sponsor
- University Health Network, Toronto
Fatigue, Sleep Deprivation
Effect and Utilization of Protected Time Among Interns on Extended Duty-Hour Call Shifts
This study will test the feasibility and effectiveness of protected time for physicians in training during 30 hour shifts in a medical intensive care unit. The primary outcome will be fatigue.
- Conditions
- Fatigue, Sleep Deprivation, Depression
- Trial name
- NCT00983008
- Testing
- Protected time and Dedicated time
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 11 people
- Sponsor
- Providence Health & Services
Patient Satisfaction
Enhancing Empathy in Medical Communication Through Perspective-Taking
Background: Empathy is critical to clinician-patient communication and patient outcomes. Perspective-taking, an intervention demonstrated in other contexts to induce empathy, has never been studied in a medical context.
- Trial name
- NCT00861991
- Testing
- Perspective taking instruction
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 608 people
- Sponsor
- George Washington University
Volunteers Medical Students in Anesthesiology-intensive Care
Impact of a Simulated Mini-CEX on Clinical Performance During a Real-World Mini-CEX
Modern medical education is based on competency-based learning and the use of formative assessment tools in real clinical settings, such as the Mini-Clinical Evaluation Exercise (mini-CEX).
- Trial name
- NCT07663760
- Testing
- Behavioral
- Volunteers
- 18 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Mongi Slim Hospital
Medical Artificial Intelligence, Interdisciplinary Research
Enhancing Medical Researchers' Self-learning With an Intelligent Language Model
Solving medical scientific problems is a crucial driving force behind the advancement of medical disciplines. As the complexity of scientific questions increases, an increasing number of problems require interdisciplinary…
- Conditions
- Medical Artificial Intelligence, Interdisciplinary Research, Self-Directed Learning
- Trial name
- NCT06015178
- Testing
- Intelligent Language Model, control
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University
Development Delay
The Balance Influence of Shoe Inserts on Motor Development Delayed Children
Flatfoot, one of the most common foot problems experienced by preschool-aged children, characterized by the collapse of the foot's medial longitudinal arch.
- Trial name
- NCT02644317
- Testing
- Modified shoe inserts
- Where
- Taiwan
- Volunteers
- 100 people
- Sponsor
- Chung Shan Medical University
Nursing Students
The Effect of Digital Stories on Nursing Students' Medical Error and Safe Drug Administration
Aim This study aimed to determine the effect of digital stories on nursing students' medical error tendencies and safe parenteral drug administration self-efficacy.
- Trial name
- NCT07142460
- Testing
- Intervention
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 64 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Inonu University
Stress
Use of Stress Inoculation Training in Medical Education
The purpose of this research study is to test the feasibility and effectiveness of SIT in teaching medical students to perform in high-fidelity simulation settings similar to those they may experience in their practice.
- Trial name
- NCT04199221
- Testing
- Stress Innoculation Training (SIT), Extra attempt
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 12 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Virginia Commonwealth University
Traumatic Brain Injury, Education
VAGABOND: a Mnemonic to Aid in the Memory Retention of the Canadian CT Head Rule
The aim of this study is to assess the effectiveness and usefulness of a simple one word mnemonic in the memory retention of the different components of the Canadian CT Head Rule (CCHR) in senior medical students and interns.
- Trial name
- NCT03565549
- Testing
- Mnemonic, CCHR rule
- Where
- Oman
- Volunteers
- 100 people
- Sponsor
- Sultan Qaboos University
Healthcare Access, Experience
Learning Differences in Medical Education
A learning difference or disability is a reduction in intellectual ability (GMC, 2024). It causes lifelong difficulty with everyday activities. Different individuals require different levels of support.
- Conditions
- Healthcare Access, Experience, Learning Disabilities
- Trial name
- NCT07585708
- Testing
- Experience of healthcare
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 15 people
- Sponsor
- University of Nottingham
Medical Education, Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS)
Video-Based Versus Bedside eFAST Training in Final-Year Medical Students
This study compared two methods of teaching the Extended Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma (eFAST) examination to final-year medical students.
- Conditions
- Medical Education, Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS), eFast
- Trial name
- NCT07790497
- Testing
- Standardized Video-Based eFAST Training, Instructor-Led Bedside eFAST Training
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Gorkem Alper Solakoglu
Acute Heart Failure (AHF), Fluid Over-load
Training Medical Residents in the Use of the Venous Excess UltraSound (VExUS) Score for Bedside Volume Assessment.
This randomized controlled trial evaluates the effectiveness of two training approaches (in-person versus remote) for teaching medical residents to apply the Venous Excess Ultrasound (VExUS) score for bedside volume assessment in…
- Conditions
- Acute Heart Failure (AHF), Fluid Over-load, Congestion, Congestion, Venous
- Trial name
- NCT07541768
- Testing
- In-person VExUS Training Program, Remote VExUS Training Program, No intervention
- Where
- Switzerland
- Volunteers
- 23 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern
Tobacco Use Disorder, Smoking Cessation
Tobacco Treatment Medical Education in 10 Medical Schools
This study compares two methods of teaching the 5As (Ask, Advise, Assess, Assist, Arrange) for tobacco dependence treatment to medical students: 1) traditional medical education (TE), and 2) multi-modal education (MME).
- Trial name
- MSQuit (NCT01905618)
- Testing
- Web-based curriculum on tobacco dependence treatment, Tobacco Counseling Role Play, Preceptor Training and Teaching Medical Students
- Where
- 13 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 10 people
- Sponsor
- University of Massachusetts, Worcester
Hemodynamic Stability
Comparative Analytical Study of Intravenous Bolus Dose of Mephentermine and Phenylephrine for Hemodynamic Stability During Elective Cesarean Section Under Spinal Anesthesia at KIST Medical College and Teaching Hospital
Hemodynamics changes with spinal anesthesia is mainly due to sympathetic block which causes mainly hypotension \& bradycardia. Post spinal hypotension usually leads to various adverse maternal and fetal outcomes.
- Trial name
- NCT05706727
- Testing
- Intravenous bolus dose of Mephentermine and mephentermine, intravenous bolus dose of phenylephrine 50 mcg
- Where
- Nepal
- Volunteers
- 42 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- KIST Medical and Teaching Hospital
Faculty, Medical
Improving Faculty's Ability to Speak Up to Others in the Operating Room
Importance Team members speaking-up by raising concerns about inappropriate or unsafe actions of others within the team can have direct, immediate, and preventive effect on adverse outcomes.
- Trial name
- NCT02170818
- Testing
- Educational Workshop on Speaking-Up, Unrelated Education (CPR)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 310 people
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Death, Pain
Intervention to Improve Care at Life's End
The BEACON trial (Best Practices for End-of-Life Care for Our Nations' Veterans) was a six-site implementation study to evaluate a multi-component, education-based intervention to improve the quality of end-of-life care provided…
- Conditions
- Death, Pain, Dyspnea
- Trial name
- BEACON (NCT00234286)
- Testing
- Comfort care education intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 78 people
- Sponsor
- US Department of Veterans Affairs