The benefits of a summer school in continued medical education in palliative care – a mixed-methods study

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

DRKS

Registry ID

DRKS00040131

Enrollment

Registered

2026-04-29

Start date

2026-06-08

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2026-08-03

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Conditions

Continued Medical Education

Interventions

Group 1: Evaluation of an international, interdisciplinary summer school in palliative care by the participants and facilitators, based on questionnaires (knowledge, subjective palliative care skills)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Participants of the summer school

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: None

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Improvements in knowledge and subjective improvements of the relevant skills pre vs post summer school. Knowledge will be tested before and after the summer school, the subjective skills will be evaluated in a pre-post-design after the summer school. Furthermore, a follow-up with the same questions at three months is planned.	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Possible improvements and best-practice examples for continued medical education in palliative care. These will be answered based on the free-form answers in the questionnaires and the semi-structured interviews.	—

Countries

Germany

Contacts

Public ContactFrank Elsner

Uniklinik Aachen

felsner@ukaachen.de+492418080797

Outcome results

None listed

Source: DRKS (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Aug 10, 2026