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Medical Residents Learning Weight Management Counseling Skills
Medical Residents Learning Weight Management Counseling Skills

NCT06529666

RecruitingNA

Sponsor: University of Massachusetts, Worcester

Conditions: Weight Management Counseling

Interventions: Didatic Session 1: Core Foundation Course, The 3Ps Program, Didactic session 2, Email reinforcement, PowerPoint of the foundational course

Countries: United States

The goal of this study is to addresses the lack of weight management training physicians receive during their residency training. The main questions it aims to answer are: * How affective is the MRWeight curriculum at increasing medical residents weight management counseling (WMC) skills. * Evaluate residents' adoption of WMC skills in encounters with their patients * what would be the best way to get residents to adopt the WMC skills Residents in the comparison group will receive a course on obesity and weight management. The residents in the intervention group will have to attend 2 informational sessions and will receive 6 email modules on WMC. Both groups will also take part in 3 assessments over the course of 18 months to see which group has better WMC skills.

Eligibility overview

Sex: ALL

Age: 18 Years to —

Healthy volunteers: Yes

Study type: INTERVENTIONAL

Eligibility criteria
Inclusion Criteria:

* All PGY1 residents in participating sites

Inclusion Criteria for participating site:

* The program is willing and able to incorporate the MRWeight program into the PGY1 core curriculum.
* The residency director will allow PGY1s to complete surveys and curriculum evaluations online or in class and to complete a standardized assessment of their knowledge and use of WMC, and
* The site will allow inclusion of three successive cohorts of PGY1s to ensure more than a sufficient number of residents to adequately test the effect of the intervention
Locations (8)
  • Palo Alto, California, United States
  • Sacramento, California, United States
  • Boston, Massachusetts, United States
  • East Setauket, New York, United States
  • The Bronx, New York, United States
  • Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States
  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
  • Houston, Texas, United States