Add-on Video-based Training: Effect on Mental Status Examination Skills in 5th Year Medical Students - an Educational RCT
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Medical Education
- Sponsor
- Psychiatric Research Unit, Region Zealand, Denmark
- Enrollment
- 290
- Locations
- 2
- Primary Endpoint
- Mental status exam skills test
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 3 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
The goal of this clinical triall is to investigate the training effect of access to authentic patient video on mental status examination performance among 5th year Danish medical students.
Aim:
To investigate if
- Students with add-on access to an authentic patient video e-library have improved Mental Status Examination precision compared to students that only have an add-on e-library with simulated patient videos.
- Number of videos watched correlate to mental status examination test scores.
Detailed Description
The main study is a a two-armed, pragmatic cluster-randomised, superiority, partial-blinded, randomized controlled trial where the interventions are e-learning courses that serves as add-on learning material during the psychiatric clerkship. Two student groups are compared. The experimental intervention(V) is a larger e-learning module, where the students have access to 23 authentic patient video vignettes and an e-module on mental status exam including demonstration videos with simulated patients (actor videos). The comparator students (N-V) only have access to the e-module on mental status exam including demonstration videos with simulated patients. All students participate in the regular Psychiatry curriculum i.e. 16 lectures in one week and psychiatric clerkship in three weeks. As students have their clerkship in 10 different facilities across the Island of Zealand, we carry out cluster-randomization based on clerkship location. Communication, recruitment and data management is carried out within the university teaching platform (CANVAS), by manual extraction, and by questionnaires distributed by SurveyXact.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •5th year medical student at the University of Copenhagen on the psychiatric clinical rotation
Exclusion Criteria
- •Previous acess to the video library.
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Mental status exam skills test
Time Frame: A week after the intervention
The test consists of three subtests each consisting of a video vignette, not accessible in the library (i.e. none of the students had seen it previously) with a forced choice test (FCT). This results in a scoring range of -15 to + 15 points per FCT. The MSE-skills test score consists of the student's average score of the three FCTs.
Secondary Outcomes
- MSE skill test score stratification(Baseline)
- General evaluation of the clinical rotation(Immediately after the intervention)
- Questions concerning use of the video e-library(Immediately after the intervention)