Randomized Controlled Trial of Multi-Source Feedback to Pediatric Residents

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Education, Medical; Feedback; Communication; Education, Competency-Based; Humanism

Treatments: Behavioral: Multi-Source Feedback: including self-assessment & coaching

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00302783

03-12-37X

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to test whether multi-source feedback, including self-assessment and tailored coaching, improves resident communication skills and professionalism. We hypothesize that residents who are assigned to receive multi-source feedback, in addition to receiving standard feedback, will improve significantly more than residents receiving standard feedback alone, as measured by parent and nurse ratings of specific behaviors over time.

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Residents entering their first year of training
• Scheduled for the two pediatric inpatient rotations where parent and nurse evaluations would be collected

Exclusion criteria

• Residents from combined Internal Medicine/Pediatric training programs

Trial design

Primary purpose: Educational/Counseling/Training

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind