Patient Safety Skills for Medical Students

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
• Interventions: Procedure: Simulation techique

• Registration Number: NCT03221153
• Lead Sponsor: Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterey

Brief 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.

Detailed 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.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2016-07-29
• Study Start: 2016-08-25
• Status Verified: 2017-07
• Study First Submitted QC: 2017-07-14
• Last Update Submitted: 2017-07-14
• Study First Posted: 2017-07-18
• Last Update Posted: 2017-07-18
• Primary Completion: 2017-09-01
• Study Completion: 2017-09-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 140

Inclusion Criteria

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

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Simulation	Simulation techique	This is the intervention group. Participants in this group will to take the course with simulation techniques.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Mean score of skills and knowledge about quality and patient safety	One year	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.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Qualitative Evaluation of Attitudes and preferences towards patient safety	One year	Assessed by interview of individuals about their attitudes and behaviours

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Tecnologico de Monterrey School of Medicine; 🇲🇽 Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico