Clinical Learning Through Extended Immersion in Medical Simulation (CLEIMS)-A New Approach to Teaching Clinical Ethics
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An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: simulation.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Educational Activities, Patient Simulation. Basic parameters: 18 years — 65 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Taiwan
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Overview
Study objective: This study is planning to develop a new simulation-based ethics education model and evaluate the effectiveness of the model to develop medical students' knowledge, moral reasoning, communication skills, and problem-solving abilities. Several strategies will be conducted to achieve this goal, including faculty development, ethics courses development, and case scenario development. Methods: The transnational learning and workshops will be arranged for faculty to develop competence for simulation-based ethics education. The workshops will gather the interdisciplinary experts together to discuss and develop the core curriculum and case scenario. The students will be assigned randomly into the simulated clinical ethical situation with simulation patients for the intervention group, and into the workshop discussing clinical ethics case scenario for the control group. The instruments will be developed and the quantitative and qualitative analysis will be conducted.
Interventions
- Other simulation
participating a simulated clinical ethical situation with simulation patients
Primary outcome measures
- Defining Issues Test (DIT) and self-developed questionnaire [Time frame: through study completion, an average of 2 years]
- ethical decision-making clinical examination [Time frame: through study completion, an average of 2 years]
- Problem Identification Test (PIT) and self-developed questionnaire [Time frame: through study completion, an average of 2 years]
- knowledge test questionnaire [Time frame: through study completion, an average of 2 years]
Secondary outcome measures (2)
- results of Objective Structured Clinical Examination [Time frame: through study completion, an average of 2 years]
- participant satisfaction questionnaire [Time frame: through study completion, an average of 2 years]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- medical students in Kaohsiung Medical University
- agree to participate the study
Exclusion criteria
- disagree to participate
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Single blind
- Primary purpose
- Other
Study locations
Taiwan · 1 center
- Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital — Kaohsiung
Publications
- Lin YK, Liu HL, Chang PC, Lin CJ, Chen CW, Yeh YS. Sequential simulation-based clinical ethics education for clerkship students: A mixed-methods pre-post study. Med Teach. 2026 Aug 5:1-17. doi: 10.1080/0142159X.2026.2708308. Online ahead of print. PMID 42554598
Identifiers
NCT: NCT05547893 · KMUHIRB-SV(II)-20200041