Clinical trial NCT01798069: Impact of Narrative Medicine (Workshop Reflexive Writing)
Official title: Impact of an Educational Program 'Narrative Medicine (Workshop Reflexive Writing) ' Dedicated to Medical Students. A Randomized Controlled Trial.
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Empathy
Lead sponsor: Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2013-02-25
Enrollment: 200
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Brief summary: Objective: The aim of this study is to assess the impact of an educational program of Narrative Medicine "workshop reflexive writing "dedicated to medical students on the satisfaction of standardized patients.

Design: Randomized Controlled Trial in 2 arms. Participants: Medical students (4th years) of the University Paris Descartes. Methods: Participants will be randomized in two groups. The allocation of participants will be done by a computerized randomization list, the sequence will be created by an independent statistician. Participants will be blinded of the study hypothesis. Allocation concealment will be provided because only the statistician will have access to the randomization list.

A program of Narrative Medicine in Class-led instruction "workshop reflexive writing "vs "workshop reading medical publication".

Outcome: The primary endpoint will be the satisfaction of standardized patient relative to the empathy of the medical students. The secondary endpoints will be the empathy of the medical students; recommendation of the student by the standardized patients to friends or relatives; students' satisfaction.

Potential interests: The investigators believe that the workshop "reflexive writing" can develop the thinking of the student with respect to his behavior with the patient, and so the relation between student and patient.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* All students in the fourth year of medical school have chosen for their first 2 quarters to complete an internship in clinical hospital departments (i.e. where direct contact with patients)

Exclusion Criteria:

* All students refusing to participate in the study.
* All students repeaters.

Primary outcomes:
measure: satisfaction of standardized patient will be assessed through the questionnaire recommended by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM).
timeFrame: 5 months after randomization (i.e. 1 month after the end of the intervention)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: The Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy
timeFrame: 5 months after randomization (i.e. 1 month after the end of the intervention)
Other outcomes:
measure: The Interpersonal Reactivity Index
timeFrame: 5 months after randomization (i.e. 1 month after the end of the intervention)
measure: students' satisfaction
timeFrame: 4 months after randomization (i.e. 1 month after the end of the intervention)
measure: recommendation of the student by the standardized patient, to friends or relatives
timeFrame: 5 months after randomization (i.e. 1 month after the end of the intervention)
Locations:
city: Paris
country: France
facility: Centre d'Epidémiologie Clinique, Assistance Publique, Hôtel Dieu
Study officials:
affiliation: Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
name: Francois GOUPY, Professeur
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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