App Teaches Doctors to Diagnose Skin Cancer

Herlev Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Melanoma (Skin); Carcinoma

Treatments: Other: Dermloop Learn

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05661370

GP-Learn

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aimed to examine if self-paced learning with a novel digital patient-case-based educational platform can increase primary care physicians' diagnostic accuracy of malignant and benign skin lesions on both the level of benign/malignant and the diagnosis level. Secondarily the study aimed to investigate the time spent in reaching this change in proficiency.

Full description

Participants were given a questionnaire and an initial Skin Cancer Multiple Choice-Questionnaire (MCQ) to test their diagnostic skills regardining skin and mole cancer and the most common differential diagnoses.

Participants in the Intervention group was then given access to an educational mobile application (App) for 8 days and asked to diagnose 500 patient cases. The participants did so at their own leisure and time.

After 8 days they were asked to abstain from using the App for another 8 days (wash out period) and were then given a Final Skin Cancer Multiple Choice-Questionnaire (MCQ).

Participants of the control group received no intervention nor education during the 16 days of waiting before they took the final Skin Cancer Multiple Choice-Questionnaire.

Enrollment: 3 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 120 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Primary Care Physician who works in General Practice

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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3 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Active Comparator group

Description:

Access to educational mobile application for 8 days, diagnosing 500 digital patient-cases.

Treatment:

Other: Dermloop Learn

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Control group receiving no intervention, continuing daily practice.