Comparison of Two Summative Assessment Methods in Advanced Life Support Courses

Sponsor

University Hospital Inselspital, Berne (Other)

Overall Status

Completed

CT.gov ID

NCT03412032

Collaborator

(none)

428

Enrollment

Location

Arms

24.9

Actual Duration (Months)

17.2

Patients Per Site Per Month

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

Several approaches for summative assessment during Advanced Life Support courses are used. The most commonly used method during European Resuscitation (ERC) Council Life Support Courses is that 1 instructor is miming a whole team, and the candidate has to lead this "team" through a scenario; another variant of the summative assessment (mainly used by American Heart Association (AHA) Courses) is with a group of students, where one student is the team leader to be assessed and the others are his team not being assessed. The second approach might be more realistic; however there is no evidence around with regard to effectiveness (pass/fail rate, ability to test non-technical skills (NTS)) or participant/assessor satisfaction.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Self-Assessment	Other: assessment	N/A

Study Design

Study Type:

Interventional

Actual Enrollment :

428 participants

Allocation:

Randomized

Intervention Model:

Parallel Assignment

Masking:

None (Open Label)

Primary Purpose:

Other

Official Title:

Comparison of Two Summative Assessment Methods in Advanced Life Support Courses - a Randomized Controlled Trial

Actual Study Start Date :

Dec 2, 2017

Actual Primary Completion Date :

Jun 30, 2019

Actual Study Completion Date :

Dec 31, 2019

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
Other: ERC Assessment as used by the European Resuscitation Council	Other: assessment different assessments in both arms
Other: AHA Assessment as used by the American Heart Association	Other: assessment different assessments in both arms

Arm

Intervention/Treatment

Other: ERC

Assessment as used by the European Resuscitation Council

Other: assessment

different assessments in both arms

Other: AHA

Assessment as used by the American Heart Association

Other: assessment

different assessments in both arms

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

Team leadership [1 minute after the assessment is completed]
Subjective rating of team leadership

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study:

N/A and Older

Sexes Eligible for Study:

All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers:

Yes

Inclusion Criteria:

All medical students at the University of Bern, study year 2017/2018, 5th and 6th study year

Exclusion Criteria:

Refusal to participate

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	University of Bern	Bern		Switzerland

Sponsors and Collaborators

University Hospital Inselspital, Berne

Investigators

Study Chair: Robert Greif, University of Bern, Switzerland

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.

Responsible Party:

University Hospital Inselspital, Berne

ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:

NCT03412032

Other Study ID Numbers:

ILS_2017/2018

First Posted:

Jan 26, 2018

Last Update Posted:

Feb 5, 2020

Last Verified:

Feb 1, 2020

Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement:

Plan to Share IPD:

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product:

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product:

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Feb 5, 2020