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NCT Number: NCT05795387

Add-on Video-based Training on Mental Status Examination Skills

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Medical Education

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Mental Health Service Capital Region, Copenhagen, Denmark

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About this study

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.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Consent
  • 5th year medical student at the University of Copenhagen on the psychiatric clinical rotation

Exclusion criteria

  • Previous acess to the video library.

Treatment and study plan

Video-based self-regulated training on the mental status exam

Other

Authentic patient videos for self-regulated training as well as written e-course material, both on the mental status exam

E-course with written material on the mental status exam

Other

Written material on the mental status exam

Primary outcomes

  1. 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

  1. MSE skill test score stratification

    Time frame: Baseline

    We will explore if there is a difference between gender, each individual video and attitude towards psychiatry on the MSE skill test score

  2. General evaluation of the clinical rotation

    Time frame: Immediately after the intervention

    The evaluation is carried out by a validated questionnaire of 10 items, to be answered on a 5-point Likert scale. Purpose-made supplementary questions concerning the student's number of patient encounters alone and with a doctor/staff and area of interest in psychiatry

  3. Questions concerning use of the video e-library

    Time frame: Immediately after the intervention

    time spend on each task/video ; evaluation of/satisfaction with the different element of the e-library

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Psychiatric Research Unit, Region Zealand, Denmark

Other

Collaborators

  • University of Copenhagen

Registry information

Official study title

Add-on Video-based Training: Effect on Mental Status Examination Skills in 5th Year Medical Students - an Educational RCT

Acronym: VV-RCT

Important dates

Study start
2021
Primary completion
2023
Study completion
2023
First posted
Apr 3, 2023
Registry last updated
Apr 3, 2023

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