Comparison of Two Summative Assessment Methods in Advanced Life Support Courses

Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern

Status: Completed

Conditions: Self-Assessment

Treatments: Other: assessment

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03412032

ILS_2017/2018

Details and patient eligibility

About

Several approaches for summative assessment during Advanced Life Support courses are used. The most commonly used method during European Resuscitation (ERC) Council Life Support Courses is that 1 instructor is miming a whole team, and the candidate has to lead this "team" through a scenario; another variant of the summative assessment (mainly used by American Heart Association (AHA) Courses) is with a group of students, where one student is the team leader to be assessed and the others are his team not being assessed. The second approach might be more realistic; however there is no evidence around with regard to effectiveness (pass/fail rate, ability to test non-technical skills (NTS)) or participant/assessor satisfaction.

Enrollment: 428 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All medical students at the University of Bern, study year 2017/2018, 5th and 6th study year

Exclusion criteria

• Refusal to participate

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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428 participants in 2 patient groups

ERC

Other group

Description:

Assessment as used by the European Resuscitation Council

Treatment:

Other: assessment

AHA

Other group

Description:

Assessment as used by the American Heart Association

Treatment:

Other: assessment