Testing Educational Modalities for Temporomandibular Disorders Curriculum

Midwestern University

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Confidence; Diagnostic Ability

Treatments: Other: Virtual Patient Based Learning (VPBL); Other: Clinical exposure to patients with TMD; Other: Clinical exposure to TMD + VPBL

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07203456

#IRB-24-0018

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is done to assess the change in confidence level, knowledge, and diagnostic ability in TMD-related aspects through the exposure to a Virtual Patient-Based Learning (VPBL) platform featuring temporomandibular disorder (TMD) cases among 3rd and 4th year predoctoral dental students at a larger predoctoral school.

Enrollment: 90 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Third or Fourth year dental students at the College of Dental Medicine at Midwestern University (Illinois)

Exclusion criteria

• Dental students not enrolled at the third and/or fourth year of the College of Dental Medicine at Midwestern University (Illinois)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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90 participants in 3 patient groups

Clinical exposure to patients with TMD

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants will be exposed to clinical patients with TMD

Treatment:

Other: Clinical exposure to patients with TMD

Clinical exposure to patients with TMD and virtual patient based learning (VPBL)

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants will be exposed to clinical patients with TMD and to the corresponding virtual patient with the same TMD diagnosis featured on the VPBL

Treatment:

Other: Clinical exposure to TMD + VPBL

Virtual Patient Based Learning (VPBL)

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will be exposed to review virtual patients featured on the VPBL

Treatment:

Other: Virtual Patient Based Learning (VPBL)