Mastery Learning in Communication Skills
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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: Mastery learning in communication skills.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Communication Research, Communication, Personal, Burnout, Professional. Basic parameters: 20 years — 60 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
- United States
- 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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Official title
Mastery Learning in Communication Skills to Improve Milestone Performance and Burnout
Overview
The goal of this study is to determine whether mastery learning in communication skills can improve skills in a simulated environment and have translational improvements in outcomes. The main questions it aims to answer are: 1. Does mastery learning improve skills in the simulation laboratory? 2. Does mastery learning improve clinical skills as seen by milestone performance? and 3 Does mastery learning improve burnout levels? The study is a multi-institutional randomized controlled trial of anesthesiology residents from five different residency programs. Participants will be randomized to mastery training in communication skills and standard of care, which is vicarious learning. Researchers will compare these two groups to see if mastery learning improves skills and translational outcomes.
Interventions
- Behavioral Mastery learning in communication skills
Participants will undergo simulation-based mastery learning curriculum in difficult conversations.
Primary outcome measures
- Communication skills [Time frame: one year]
Secondary outcome measures (2)
- Milestones Performance [Time frame: two years]
- Burnout levels [Time frame: 1.5 years]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Anesthesiology residents rotating at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Exclusion criteria
- Participant refusal
- Study participants who have already undergone the mastery learning in difficult conversations course.
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
- Quadruple blind
- Primary purpose
- Other
Study locations
United States · 1 center
- Northwestern University Simulation Center — Chicago
Identifiers
NCT: NCT05979090 · 20235952