N/A N=33 Health Services Research

Improving Medical Training for the Care of Chronic Conditions

Diabetes Mellitus

Bottom Line

View on ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT00676208 ↗

Enrolled (actual)

Serious AEs

0.0%

Results posted

Dec 2014

Primary outcome: Primary: Change in Confidence in Ability to Perform Teamwork — 1.40; -0.12 units of a scale — p=0.04

Study Design & Population

Study type: Interventional
Phase: N/A
Interventions: Shared Medical Appointments (Behavioral)
Age: Adult, Older Adult · 20+ yrs
Sex: All
Sponsor: VA Office of Research and Development
Primary completion: Sep 2008

Outcome Measures

Outcome	Result	p-value
PRIMARY Change in Confidence in Ability to Perform Teamwork	1.40; -0.12	0.04 sig
SECONDARY Change in Professionals' Attitudes About Diabetes	0.88; -1.12	0.04 sig

Summary

While medical training has increasingly included chronic care management, quality care necessitates education approaches that go farther. In April 2005, the Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) implemented a weekly Diabetes Shared Medical Appointment (SMA). SMAs offer an important opportunity to improve chronic care and a unique setting for training physicians. In order to equip physicians with needed resources to manage chronic care, the ways in which SMA experiences are processed and integrated into learning about interdisciplinary approaches and expanding trainees' understanding of chronic care issues need to be examined.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

Medical Students:

Inclusion: All medical students participating in diabetes Shared Medical Appointment sessions or other training experiences during the course of the study.

Exclusion Criteria

medical students who have participated in SMAs for patients with diabetes at the Cleveland VAMC in the past.

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Data sourced from ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT00676208). Outcome figures and adverse-event rates are extracted automatically from the registry's posted results and are provided for clinician reference, not as a substitute for the primary publication.