Clinical trial NCT02217241: Effect of Hand-off Skills Training for Students During the Medicine Clerkship
Official title: Effect of Hand-off Skills Training for Students During the Medicine Clerkship: A Randomized Study
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Patient Handoff
Lead sponsor: George Washington University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2014-08-15
Enrollment: 95
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of an educational intervention on handoffs implemented during the third year of medical school. It also assesses whether these skills are maintained over time into their fourth year of training and whether there is transfer from the simulated setting into the clinical environment.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Third Year Medicine Clerks

Exclusion Criteria:

* None

Primary outcomes:
measure: Evaluate workshop effectiveness of students undergoing the intervention, rated before and after the workshop utilizing standardized cases and a validated Handoff Rating Scale.
timeFrame: up to 45 minutes post-intervention
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
measure: Assess durability of the training by rating intervention and control group students on a third standardized case during their fourth year AI on internal medicine.
timeFrame: up to 12 months after intervention
measure: Assess the transfer of handoff skills into the clinical setting by observing AI students in both the intervention and control groups providing real-time handoffs.
timeFrame: Up to 12 months after the intervention
Locations:
city: Washington
country: United States
facility: The George Washington University School of Medicine; The George Washington University Hospital
state: District of Columbia
Study officials:
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