Clinical trials: Education, Medical
Surgical Simulation Education
Assessment of the Transferability of Skills From Robotic to Laparoscopic Simulation Platforms
This is a randomized controlled trial that will randomize 40 surgical skill naive medical students to practice on a robotic simulator or laparoscopic simulator after first completing a baseline evaluation on both surgical…
- Trial name
- NCT02370407
- Testing
- a laparoscopic simulator (Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS), VT Medical Inc, Waltham, MA), Mimic da Vinci robotic simulator
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Johns Hopkins University
Diabetes Mellitus
Impact of an Interprofessional Shared Decision-making and Goal-setting Decision Aid for Patients With Diabetes
Diabetes care is complicated for people with diabetes as well as for health care providers: they have to watch their diet, exercise, take medications, checking blood sugars and blood pressure, get tests and see multiple doctors.
- Trial name
- NCT02379078
- Testing
- Shared decision-making aid, Generic hard copy diabetes resources, Generic online diabetes resources
- Volunteers
- 225 people
- Sponsor
- Unity Health Toronto
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
Educational Techniques
The Effect of a Structured, Home-based Interview With a Patient on First-year Medical Students' Patient-centredness.
Background Doctors are regarded as professionals, and specific teaching on professional behaviour is considered important in many countries.
- Trial name
- NCT03722810
- Testing
- Intervention
- Where
- Switzerland
- Volunteers
- 317 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Bern
Children With Medical Complexity (CMC), COVID-19
ReSET Aim 1b: Restarting Safe Education and Testing for Children With Medical Complexity - COVID-19 Testing in School With Children and Staff
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, is a worldwide pandemic that has resulted in large-scale quarantines in cities, states, and countries throughout the world.
- Trial name
- NCT04899245
- Testing
- BinaxNOW Rapid Antigen System
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 112 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Wisconsin, Madison
Medical Education
Effect of a Community Service-Learning Intervention on Medical Empathy and Clinical Self-Efficacy in Medical Students
Medical empathy and clinical self-efficacy are key professional competencies that are difficult to develop through traditional classroom-based training alone.
- Trial name
- ApS-MED-IZT (NCT07528521)
- Testing
- Community Service-Learning Anthropometric Assessment
- Where
- Mexico
- Volunteers
- 35 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Luis Angel Flores Sagrero
Resident Knowledge and Attitudes Regarding Cross-cultural Care, Interpersonal and Communication Skills in Patient-clinician Encounters
The Provider Awareness and Cultural Dexterity Toolkit for Surgeons Trial
This study is designed to test the impact of a new curriculum, called Provider Awareness Cultural Dexterity Toolkit for Surgeons (PACTS), on surgical residents' cross-cultural knowledge, attitudes, and skills surrounding the care…
- Conditions
- Resident Knowledge and Attitudes Regarding Cross-cultural Care, Interpersonal and Communication Skills in Patient-clinician Encounters, Patient-reported Satisfaction With Resident Physicians Involved in Their Care, Patients' Clinical Health Outcomes After Surgery
- Trial name
- PACTS (NCT03576495)
- Testing
- PACTS curriculum, Standard Residency Curriculum
- Where
- 8 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 2,901 people
- Sponsor
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
Quality Improvement
Developing a Practice-Based Learning and Improvement Quality Improvement (QI) Systems Impact Assessment Questionnaire
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) acknowledged the changing needs of physicians in training when it endorsed practice-based learning and improvement (PBLI) -- a competency that is typically omitted…
- Trial name
- NCT00754377
- Testing
- PBLI Curriculum
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 92 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- US Department of Veterans Affairs
HIV/AIDS
90 DAYS: An Entertainment Education Intervention to Evaluate a Short Film About HIV Status Disclosure
This investigation seeks to understand if and how, the 90 Days film can be used as an intervention to address HIV-related stigmas, intimate partner status disclosure and HIV ART medical adherence among Black HIV positive women.
- Trial name
- NCT03898063
- Testing
- 90 DAYS film, HIV pamphlet on disclosure
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 148 people
- Sponsor
- University of Miami
Education, Medical
Repeated Versus Varied Simulation Scenarios to Teach Medical Students the Management of a Pediatric Asthma Exacerbation
Repeated exposure to simulated cases has been shown to improve performance, but repeating the same scenario may impair the ability of learners to transfer their knowledge and skills to slightly different situations.
- Trial name
- REVAR (NCT02754310)
- Testing
- Variation of scenarios, Repeated scenarios
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 85 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Ilumens
Insomnia, Insomnia Due to Medical Condition
Sleep Treatment Education Program for Young Adult Cancer Survivors (STEP-YA)
The purpose of the study is to learn if a single online education session, with or without individualized coaching sessions, can help improve young adult cancer survivors' (YACS) sleep.
- Conditions
- Insomnia, Insomnia Due to Medical Condition, Cancer
- Trial name
- NCT05358951
- Testing
- STEP-YA with Coaching, STEP-YA without Coaching
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 56 people
- Sponsor
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Ageing
Ageing and Acute Care Physicians' Performance
The proportion of older acute care physicians (ACPs) has been increasing. Ageing is associated with physiological changes and research investigating how such age-related physiological changes affect clinical performance is…
- Trial name
- NCT02683447
- Testing
- CRM Simulation
- Where
- 2 sites in Canada
- Volunteers
- 48 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Education, Medical, Undergraduate, Medical History Taking
Measuring Quality of Medical Student Performance at Contextualizing Care
During the project, fourth-year medical students participating in a Medicine sub-internship will be randomized to an intervention group or a control group; the intervention group will receive additional training in the…
- Conditions
- Education, Medical, Undergraduate, Medical History Taking, Diagnosis
- Trial name
- NCT01088438
- Testing
- Contextualization workshop
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 189 people
- Sponsor
- University of Illinois Chicago
Ascites, Cirrhosis
Improving Performance of Paracentesis in Medical Residency Training
The investigators hypothesize that there is significant variability in management of patients with ascites despite guidelines provided by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, the professional organization…
- Trial name
- NCT01403987
- Testing
- Residency Program Teaching, Lecture, Pocket Card Reference
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 136 people
- Sponsor
- Boston Medical Center
Dementia, Caregivers
VA Cultivating Access to Resources, Education, and Skills for Dementia Caregivers
The purpose of this study is to study the effects of an education and skill-building intervention on family caregivers of Veterans with dementia.
- Conditions
- Dementia, Caregivers, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Brain Diseases
- Trial name
- VACARES (NCT02106065)
- Testing
- Education and Skill-Building Rehabilitation (ESBR), Supplemental Education Materials
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 32 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Type 2 Diabetes, Obesity
Diabetes Data-Assisted Remission Trial (DDART)
The study team will study the efficacy of a high intensity medical weight loss intervention paired with a digital platform to create weight loss and induce remission of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) compared to a diabetes…
- Trial name
- NCT04663061
- Testing
- Medical weight loss, Diabetes education, Continuous glucose monitoring
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 64 people
- Sponsor
- Wake Forest University Health Sciences
COVID-19, Children With Medical Complexity (CMC)
ReSET Aim 1a: Restarting Safe Education and Testing for Children With Medical Complexity - Feasibility of In-home Cohort COVID-19 Testing Strategies, and Associations With CMC Parent Perceptions About In-person School Attendance
The purpose of this research study is to learn about the factors parents consider when deciding whether their child will go to school in-person or attend from home.
- Trial name
- NCT04895085
- Testing
- BinaxNOW Rapid Antigen System
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 51 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Wisconsin, Madison
Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction
Dashboard Activated Services and Tele-Health for Heart Failure
The Dashboard Activated Services and tele-Health for Heart Failure (DASH-HF) study is a pragmatic randomized controlled trial of a quality improvement (QI) intervention of a prospective panel management intervention to optimize…
- Trial name
- DASH-HF (NCT05001165)
- Testing
- Proactive Panel Management Clinics for HFrEF
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 300 people
- Sponsor
- VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
Three Different Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Training Methods
The goal of this study is to compare three methods of teaching medical and nursing students basic life saving skills. The standard method will teach students how to push on the chest and to analyze the heart rhythm using a…
- Trial name
- BLSPilot (NCT01361919)
- Testing
- Feedback During CPR Training and Testing, No Feedback Group, Feedback during CPR Training Not Testing
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 298 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Unity Health Toronto
Diabetes Mellitus
Improving Medical Training for the Care of Chronic Conditions
While medical training has increasingly included chronic care management, quality care necessitates education approaches that go farther.
- Trial name
- NCT00676208
- Testing
- Shared Medical Appointments
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 33 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development