Diabetes Mellitus
Conditions
Brief summary
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.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALParticipation in LOFTS online tutorial
Sponsors
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
University of California, Los Angeles
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Family medicine residents (physicians in training) * Internal medicine residents (physicians in training)
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Knowledge related to blood pressure and lipid management for diabetes patients | Up to 8 weeks |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed