Clinical trial NCT06911853: Enhancing Clinical and Cultural Virtual Encounter in Health Professional Students: 3 Is (Internationalization, Innovation, Interdisciplinary) in Action
Official title: Enhancing Clinical and Cultural Virtual Encounter in Health Professional Students: 3 Is (Internationalization, Innovation, Interdisciplinary) in Action
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Interprofessional Education
Keywords: Interprofessional education
Lead sponsor: The University of Hong Kong
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2025-04-04
Enrollment: 104
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 40
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: This is a cross-over randomized control study with 3 time-points' measurement. This study is mainly to evaluate if the online pedagogic innovative learning modules could benefit students through their interprofessional and intercultural virtual encounters, with a focus on assessing their cultural awareness, interprofessional attitude and online learning engagement.

Detailed description: This study aims to promote and implement internationalization, innovative and intedisciplinary teaching and learning strategies through the set up of online modules of selected topics of interest. The specific objectives are: :

To enhance the educational outcomes of students from respective health disciplines in interdisciplinary learning via case-based clinical scenarios adopted in the online modules; To develop internationalization experience among students of different countries in terms of intercultural learning through the cultural exchange; To assess level of students' empowerment in active learning via 'student-as-partner' initiatives in the cultural exchange; To evaluate the effectiveness of online learning engagement among students through participating in the online modules.

Based on the Phase of Engagement Framework, two online orthopaedic modules focusing on interprofessional and intercultural educations on low back pain (LBP) and adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) are developed. The students (n=104) are randomized into two groups using SNOSE. In the first module, one group receives a virtual reality (VR)-enhanced LBP education (intervention group), while the other group engages with a case study on LBP (control group). After a 3-week washout period, the groups cross over: the intervention group receives the VR-enhanced education on AIS, and the control group focuses on an AIS case study. Interprofessional learning experience, cultural awareness, and online learning engagement are measured using validated tools at three time points (baseline, after first and second modules).

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* undergraduate healthcare students

Exclusion Criteria:

* cannot communicate in English

Primary outcomes:
measure: Students' Perceptions of Interprofessional Clinical education - Revised
timeFrame: 2 months
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Hong Kong
country: Hong Kong
facility: 5/F, Academic Building, 3 Sassoon Road
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