Mastery Learning in Communication Skills

Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Communication, Personal; Burnout, Professional; Communication Research

Treatments: Behavioral: Mastery learning in communication skills

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05979090

20235952

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 80 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 60 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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80 participants in 2 patient groups

Mastery Learning Group

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mastery learning in communication skills

Standard of Care Group

No Intervention group