Weight Management Counseling in Medical Schools

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Obesity

In brief

Eight U.S. medical schools will be participating in the study: Weight Management Counseling in Medical Schools, also known as MSWEIGHT. This is a five-year randomized controlled trial (RCT) designed to compare the efficacy of two approaches to learning weight management counseling: 1)traditional education (TE) and; 2) multi-modal educational intervention (MME). The study aims are to refine and compare the efficacy of MME to TE on observed student weight management counseling skills measured through the primary outcome, the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE).

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02725905

Run by

University of Massachusetts, Worcester

People needed

3199

Starts

2015-12-01

Expected to finish

2022-11-30

Last updated by the study team

2023-05-17

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• The medical school has:
• Interest in WMC medical education reform.
• Curricula resources (e.g. academic computing) to facilitate web-course training and a system to maintain student contact.
• The willingness and ability to incorporate all components of MSWEIGHT into the medical school curriculum, require or strongly encourage students to participate, and award credit for completion.
• The willingness and ability to offer the WMC OSCE for third year medical students upon completion of the Family or Internal Medicine clerkship rotation.
• Exclusion Criteria: The medical school does not have:
• The ability to incorporate all components of MSWEIGHT into the medical school curriculum.
• The ability to offer the WMC OSCE for third year medical students upon completion of the Family or Internal Medicine clerkship rotation.

Where it is running

• University of Alabama-Birmingham — Birmingham, Alabama, United States
• Georgetown University School of Medicine — Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States
• University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine — Iowa City, Iowa, United States
• University of Louisville School of Medicine — Louisville, Kentucky, United States
• Creighton University School of Medicine — Omaha, Nebraska, United States
• Oregon Health and Science University — Portland, Oregon, United States
• University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
• Brown University — Providence, Rhode Island, United States

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