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NCT Number: NCT03472001

Reflection and Feedback in Clinical Reasoning

Medical students' abilities to diagnose skin lesions after dermatology electives often remain unsatisfactory despite a dermatology elective being one of the most effective ways to improve their clinical reasoning. Feedback and reflection are two basic teaching methods used in clinical settings. This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of structured reflection and immediate feedback in improving of medical students' evaluation of skin lesions.

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Key information

Conditions

Educational Problems

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Department of Dermatology, Seoul National University Boramae Hospital

Seoul, 156-707, South Korea

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

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

Inclusion criteria

  • Fourth-year medical students at Seoul National University College of Medicine
  • Students taking 2-week dermatology elective courses

Exclusion criteria

  • Students who do not complete the whole course

Treatment and study plan

Reflection and feedback

Other

2-hour training involving 10 written clinical cases to encourage students to practice thinking like a dermatologist in their clinical reasoning, and to help students build adequate illness scripts of skin diseases

Lecture

Other

Traditional didactic lecture which uses the same clinical cases

Primary outcomes

  1. Diagnostic accuracy in the training set

    Time frame: At the end of a 2-week dermatology elective

    Mean score of the training set (number of correct answers)

Secondary outcomes

  1. Diagnostic accuracy in the control set

    Time frame: At the end of a 2-week dermatology elective

    Mean score of the control set (number of correct answers)

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Seoul National University Hospital

Other

Collaborators

  • SMG-SNU Boramae Medical Center

Registry information

Official study title

Effects of Structured Reflection and Immediate Feedback in Improving of Medical Students' Evaluation of Skin Lesions

Important dates

Study start
2018
Primary completion
2018
Study completion
2018
First posted
Mar 21, 2018
Registry last updated
Sep 11, 2018

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