Effectiveness of Flipped Classroom in Clinical Skills Teaching

NCT05213260 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: Pro 22030013
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 50
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

College of Medicine, DAU University, is a private college, located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, which launched its activity in 2013. Since that time, there is a continuous increase in the number of students, especially during the last three years after the graduation of the first batch, which is not associated with the recruitment of new faculty. Of course, this increase in the number of students has affected greatly the interaction between the instructors and the students. Another challenging point is the short time assigned for most of the preclinical years' courses as most of our blocks have 5-8 weeks duration with a lot of work needed to be done to help students demonstrate mastery of the intended learning outcomes. As a response to these problems, the investigators sought to pilot testing flipping the classroom of clinical skill sessions as a new educational approach in our college.

Conditions

Medical Education; Simulation Based Learning

Keywords

Preclinical medical students; Clinical skills learning; Flipped classroom

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Assessing students' performance

  Students in the control and study group will be assessed by the tutors based on a certain checklist

  During the session while performing the skills

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Perception of students included in the flipped classroom

  immediately after the flipped teaching session

Study Arms (2)

intervention group (Flipped Teaching Method Group)

EXPERIMENTAL

Flipped classroom for intervention group: The students allotted to the flipped classroom teaching approach will receive the pre-session learning materials (video access links) three days prior to the clinical case session through their institutional email addresses. Students will be encouraged to complete the assigned tasks before coming to class. The session will start by reviewing the objectives, discussing the difficult points they have in the preparation materials, and answering any question. They also will be shortly briefed about how the scenario would run. They will have a fixed time to take the cardiovascular history, perform examination, order appropriate investigations, reach a differential diagnosis, and formulate a treatment plan. During the session, the instructor will evaluate these students at each level of clinical case-solving. Finally, post-session survey will be disseminated via email to know the students' perception of the flipped teaching.

Other: Flipped Teaching method

Control group (Traditional Method Group)

NO INTERVENTION

This group of students, included 20 participants, will be briefed by the instructors for 30 minutes immediately before the clinical skill session about the clinical case which will include: history taking, examination, investigations, diagnosis, and treatment plan. Following that, there will be time for practice and discussion amongst the students on a high-fidelity manikin. Of note, these students will not receive any pre-session teaching material as the intervention group.

Interventions

Flipped Teaching method OTHER

Before the clinical skill laboratory session, the students will receive the learning materials that they have to read and assimilate before the in-class part which will include interactive, discussion-oriented, and practice-oriented activities.

intervention group (Flipped Teaching Method Group)

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• Third-year medical students
• Successfully completed the cardiovascular block.
• Agreed to participate in the study

You may not qualify if:

• Refused to participate in the study
• Did not successfully completed the cardiovascular block.
• All students from the clinical phase and UPP (preparatory phase)

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Dar Al Uloom University: lead

Study Sites (1)

College of Medicine, Dar Al Uloom University

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Location

Study Officials

• Einas M Yousef, Ph.D.

  College of Medicine, Dar Al Uloom University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: BASIC SCIENCE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Principal Investigator

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: January 4, 2022
• First Posted: January 28, 2022
• Study Start: June 1, 2021
• Primary Completion: December 30, 2023
• Study Completion: December 30, 2023
• Last Updated: February 20, 2024

Record last verified: 2024-02

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

SA (1)