Medical Education Intervention for Medical Students

Ming Kuang

Status and phase: Unknown; Phase 3

Conditions: Mental Health

Treatments: Other: Education of medical humanities

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02645643

MEI001

Details and patient eligibility

About

The doctor-patient relationship was becoming worse. More and more work-related violence has happened to physicians and nurses. A portion of medical students felt depressed and thought that the career future was gloomy. The study was designed to measure the empathy, an vital element of professionalism, well-being of mental and study emotion. Furthermore, the investigators explored an intervention of group study to promote medical students' professionalism, mental health and study emotion.

Full description

A total number of 200 junior medical students are going to be enrolled according to inclusive criteria. They are divided into two groups, one group is given education about medical humanities when the other group is not given any intervention but the same room and time.The outcomes including empathy, depression, quality of life, burnout and self-efficiency are measured before, during and after the trial.

Enrollment: 200 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 25 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 1 age 18 to 25 years
• 2 junior students majoring in clinical medicine
• 3 no mental diseases previously

Exclusion criteria

• Did not meet inclusion criteria

Trial design

200 participants in 2 patient groups

intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

Medical students rolled into this group would accept education of medical humanities.

Treatment:

Other: Education of medical humanities

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Medical students rolled into this group would not gain education of medical humanities.