Status:

COMPLETED

Simulated Diabetes Training for Resident Physicians

Lead Sponsor:

HealthPartners Institute

Collaborating Sponsors:

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

Conditions:

Type 2 Diabetes

Eligibility:

All Genders

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

The objective of this translational research is to study the effect of implementing an innovative simulated diabetes learning intervention within primary care residency programs. The intervention uses...

Detailed Description

Specific aim 1: To examine the impact of a simulated case-based learning intervention on measures of quality of diabetes care delivered by primary care residents to simulated adult patients with diabe...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Study subjects include up to 700 first, second, third, and fourth year primary care residents from a minimum of 20 residency programs across the country. To become a partner in this study, programs must meet the eligibility criteria listed below:
  • To be eligible for partnership in this study, a program must meet all the following criteria:
  • a) be an accredited family medicine or internal medicine/med-peds training program within the U.S., (b) have a minimum of 12 residents within the standard 3- to 4-year program, (c) the program director must endorse and be willing to offer SimCare Diabetes to all residents within the program and provide residents (with help from the study staff) with the explanatory and registration materials, (d) the residency program director must sign a letter of agreement with the research team specifying the responsibilities of the research team and of the residency program in addressing the specific needs of this project, (e) the residency program director must agree to complete a residency program director survey, which provides insight into the general characteristics of the residency program, and provide diabetes quality measurement data from at least one resident ambulatory clinic pre-intervention (around October/November 2010) and post-intervention (around June/July 2011), (f) residents within the program must have high speed internet access, and (g) if randomized to the delayed learning program group, the program must be willing to postpone SimCare Diabetes until after the post-intervention assessment cases are completed.

Exclusion

    Key Trial Info

    Start Date :

    September 1 2010

    Trial Type :

    INTERVENTIONAL

    Allocation :

    ACTUAL

    End Date :

    July 1 2013

    Estimated Enrollment :

    341 Patients enrolled

    Trial Details

    Trial ID

    NCT00979823

    Start Date

    September 1 2010

    End Date

    July 1 2013

    Last Update

    December 3 2014

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    HealthPartners Research Foundation

    Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, 55440