Evaluation of a Simulation Training Tool to Identify Lesions Requiring Further Screening for Melanoma

Northwestern University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mastery Learning Model to Simulation Training for Visual Screening for Melanoma and Skin Biopsy; Skin Simulation Model

Treatments: Other: Simulation teaching session

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01191294

JKR-011510

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators will design a curriculum for visual screening for melanoma and skin biopsy procedure, based on the mastery learning model, using simulators and web-based didactic instruction for medical students and internal medicine residents. This requires having a skin simulation model that presents a range of lesions from benign nevus to atypical nevus to melanoma in a distribution and density that mimics the clinical findings of those with 2 skin tones: fair-skin non- Hispanic white and Hispanic.

Enrollment: 270 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 89 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Medical student in his primary care clerkship at Northwestern University

Exclusion criteria

• Not a medical student in his primary care clerkship at Northwestern University

Trial design

270 participants in 1 patient group

Medical Students

Experimental group

Description:

3rd year medical students during their primary care clerkship

Treatment:

Other: Simulation teaching session