Evaluation of Multiscore Feedback in Professionalism for Anesthesia

NCT01522560 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 11-473
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 28
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Professionalism is one of the six competences required by The Accreditation for Graduate Medical Education Outcome Project to be taught and evaluated during residency. Anesthesia residents are faced with unique communication challenges in their practice including brief contact time with their patients, operating room efficiency pressure, etc. To assess professionalism in Anesthesiology residents is important to obtain evaluations from people with whom they interact including patients, surgeons, colleagues and members of the support team. The Multisource feedback (MSF) approach has been used to evaluate communication skills and professionalism among practicing physicians and residents in a variety of settings. This evaluation model has never been used previously to evaluate anesthesia residents. The investigators propose a randomized controlled trial to validate and evaluate a MSF in professionalism for anesthesia residents. Participants include eighty residents doing two months rotation in Pediatric Anesthesia Department at The Cleveland Clinic Anesthesia Institute from July 1, 2011 and June 30, 2013. MSF questionnaires will be validated using face and content validity methods and comparing them with the current system of evaluation. Residents will be randomly assigned to a feedback group or to the control group. Both groups will receive MSF evaluation from the faculty, patients' parent and coworker. Only the group assigned to feedback is going to have a 'coaching meeting' every month to identify strengths and weaknesses and create strategies for improvement. The investigators are planning to compare the mean values of the baseline evaluations with the mean values obtained after the first and second months from the MSF.

Conditions

CA2 and CA3 Residents Doing a Two Month Rotation in; Pediatric Anesthesia Department

Keywords

CA2 and CA3 residents; Pediatric Anesthesia

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Validate Multiscore Feedback (MSF)

  To evaluate content validity, copies of the questionnaires will be sent to experts in education in the Anesthesia Institute and Graduate Medical Education at The Cleveland Clinic; they will be asked if the new questionnaires are a good tool to measure professionalism for anesthesia residents

  up to 60 days

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• secondary goal is to test a Multiscore Feedback (MSF) as a method of evaluation in professionalism for anesthesia residents.

  up to 18 months

Study Arms (2)

Control Group

PLACEBO COMPARATOR

Residents will be randomly assigned to a feedback group or to the control group. Besides the standard evaluation at the end of the rotation, in both groups, residents will receive every week a MSF evaluation from the faculty, the patients' parent, and the coworker. Also, for every resident a baseline self assessment will be applied at the beginning and at the end of the rotation. Only the group assigned to feedback is going to have a 'coaching meeting' every month with the Chairman of Department of Pediatric Anesthesia to identify strengths and weaknesses and create strategies for improvement, based on the MSF.

Other: Control group

Feedback group

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Residents will be randomly assigned to a feedback group or to the control group. Besides the standard evaluation at the end of the rotation, in both groups, residents will receive every week a MSF evaluation from the faculty, the patients' parent, and the coworker. Also, for every resident a baseline self assessment will be applied at the beginning and at the end of the rotation. Only the group assigned to feedback is going to have a 'coaching meeting' every month with the Chairman of Department of Pediatric Anesthesia to identify strengths and weaknesses and create strategies for improvement, based on the MSF.

Other: Feedback group

Interventions

Feedback group OTHER

Besides the standard evaluation at the end of the rotation, in both groups, residents will receive every week a Multiscore Feedback (MSF) evaluation from the faculty, the patients' parent, and the coworker. Also, for every resident a baseline self assessment will be applied at the beginning and at the end of the rotation. This group is going to have a 'coaching meeting' every month with the Chairman of Department of Pediatric Anesthesia to identify strengths and weaknesses and create strategies for improvement, based on the Multiscore Feedback (MSF).

Feedback group

Control group OTHER

Besides the standard evaluation at the end of the rotation, in both groups, residents will receive every week a Multiscore Feedback (MSF) evaluation from the faculty, the patients' parent, and the coworker. Also, for every resident a baseline self assessment will be applied at the beginning and at the end of the rotation.

Control Group

Eligibility Criteria

• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• CA2 and CA3 residents doing a two month rotation in Pediatric Anesthesia Department

You may not qualify if:

• N/A

Sponsors & Collaborators

• The Cleveland Clinic: lead

Study Sites (1)

Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio, 44195, United States

Location

MeSH Terms

Interventions

Control Groups

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Epidemiologic Research Design; Epidemiologic Methods; Investigative Techniques; Research Design; Methods

Study Officials

• Nelson Riveros, M.D.

  The Cleveland Clinic

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: January 27, 2012
• First Posted: January 31, 2012
• Study Start: July 1, 2011
• Primary Completion: December 1, 2017
• Study Completion: December 1, 2017
• Last Updated: February 9, 2018

Record last verified: 2017-08

Locations

US (1)