Effect of Hand-off Skills Training for Students During the Medicine Clerkship

George Washington University (GW)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Patient Handoff

Treatments: Other: Handoff Workshop

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02217241

101125

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of an educational intervention on handoffs implemented during the third year of medical school. It also assesses whether these skills are maintained over time into their fourth year of training and whether there is transfer from the simulated setting into the clinical environment.

Enrollment: 95 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Third Year Medicine Clerks

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

95 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Students in the intervention group participated in a one-hour interactive, small-group handoff workshop facilitated by a study investigator. The workshop focused on the importance of specific handoff skills to patient safety.

Treatment:

Other: Handoff Workshop

Control

No Intervention group