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One-Minute Preceptor to Improve Bedside Teaching: a Cluster Randomized Trial in Residents
Led by Can Tho University of Medicine and Pharmacy · Updated on 2025-12-26
450
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
16 weeks
Total Duration
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AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
The trial investigates how the One-Minute Preceptor (OMP) teaching method affects bedside teaching quality in medical education. It focuses on residents who supervise Year 4 medical students during clinical rotations. The goal is to see if structured OMP feedback improves student performance and satisfaction compared to usual bedside teaching practices. Participants are grouped by preceptors into clusters, randomly assigned to either the OMP intervention or usual teaching. The OMP group receives a 90-minute workshop, a pocket card for guidance, coaching, and fidelity checks to ensure correct use of the method. The control group continues with standard bedside teaching, with OMP training offered after the study ends. Students attend rotations lasting 8 to 12 weeks, during which they receive feedback and are assessed using the Mini-Clinical Evaluation Exercise (mini-CEX). Researchers evaluate student performance scores and satisfaction. Preceptors' adherence to the OMP method is monitored, and outcomes are collected without participant or teacher masking except for outcome assessors. The full participation period is based on rotation length, with assessments at 8 to 12 weeks.
CONDITIONS
Brief Title
One-Minute Preceptor to Improve Bedside Teaching
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Student participants must be 18 years or older at enrollment.
- Enrolled Year 4 medical students assigned to participating preceptor-led bedside teaching groups.
- Expected to attend the rotation for 8 to 12 weeks or the site's standard rotation length.
- Able to provide informed consent and agree to be observed and assessed via mini-CEX.
- Resident physicians serving as bedside teaching preceptors in participating departments.
- Preceptors must supervise about 15 students during the study period.
- Preceptors agree not to teach students in the opposite trial arm during the study.
- Preceptors must be able to attend OMP training and permit fidelity observation if allocated to the intervention.
You will not qualify if you...
- Student participants with prior formal OMP-based teaching in the same department within the past 6 months.
- Students not expected to remain on rotation long enough to be assessed (e.g., planned absence over 2 weeks or early withdrawal).
- Students who decline or withdraw informed consent.
- Students with severe communication barriers preventing valid assessment (e.g., unsupported language barrier).
- Preceptors with formal OMP training within the past 12 months or who are OMP trainers for other faculty during the study period.
- Preceptors with planned cross-coverage teaching students from both trial arms during the study.
- Preceptors anticipating extended leave making fidelity and outcome assessments infeasible.
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Your Study Journey
Duration - 2 to 4 weeks
Participants are screened for eligibility to participate in the trial.
1 visit (in-person)
Duration - 8 to 12 weeks
Participants receive bedside teaching with or without the One-Minute Preceptor training intervention, including a 90-minute workshop, pocket card, coaching, and fidelity checklist for those in the intervention group.
Visits occur throughout the rotation period as part of usual bedside teaching and assessments
Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
Can Tho Children Hospital
Can Tho, Province, Vietnam, 900000
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Research Team
Q
Quang Chi Ngo, Master Degree
N
Ngo
How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
SINGLE
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Model
PARALLEL
Primary Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Number of Arms
2
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