Computer-Based Continuing Education for Doctors in Examination and Counseling of Patients on Skin Cancer or Weight Control
Status unconfirmed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Melanoma (Skin), Non-melanomatous Skin Cancer
In brief
RATIONALE: Computer-based continuing education courses may be effective in improving the skills of primary care doctors to identify skin cancer risk factors, perform skin cancer exams, and counsel patients. They may also improve the skills of primary care doctors to assess and counsel patients on their weight, diet, and physical activity. PURPOSE: This randomized clinical trial is studying how well computer-based continuing education courses work in improving doctors' ability to perform skin cancer or weight control exams and counseling during routine office visits.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00295906
- Run by
- Rhode Island Hospital
- People needed
- 4550
- Starts
- 2004-06-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2013-12-18
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
Where it is running
- Scripps-Ranch Family Medicine Clinic at University of California — San Diego, California, United States (enrolling)
- University of Kansas School of Medicine - Wichita — Wichita, Kansas, United States (enrolling)
- Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute at Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center — Columbus, Ohio, United States (enrolling)
- Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University - Philadelphia — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States (enrolling)
- Rhode Island Hospital Comprehensive Cancer Center — Providence, Rhode Island, United States (enrolling)
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