Educational Technology to Enhance Diabetes Care - Retention Study

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Diabetes Mellitus

In brief

This study mapped the time course of forgetting among resident physicians after they use an online learning exercise covering principles of diabetes care. Participants took a pre-test followed by an online tutorial covering aspects of diabetes care. They then completed a post-test on the same topics after a randomly-assigned time delay from 0 to 55 days. We hypothesized that post-test scores after these different time delays would decline following a curvilinear relationship with increasing time. This understanding of forgetting will inform our selection of a time for delivering reinforcement exercises in future educational studies among physicians.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00470860

Run by

University of California, Los Angeles

People needed

105

Starts

2004-12-01

Expected to finish

2005-08-01

Last updated by the study team

2007-05-08

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Family medicine residents (physicians in training)
• Internal medicine residents (physicians in training)

Where it is running

• Charles R. Drew University — Los Angeles, California, United States
• UCLA Medical Center — Los Angeles, California, United States

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