Learning Process of Fourth Year Medical Students During a Doctor-patient Relationship Training

Learning Process of Fourth Year Medical Students During an Obligatory Doctor-patient Relationship Training, Including Role Play, Simulated Consultation, Balint Group and Courses: a Mixed Method Study

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT03559998

Acronym

APTHERA

Enrollment

404

Registered

2018-06-18

Start date

2018-06-02

Completion date

2018-06-30

Last updated

2026-03-27

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Conditions

Undergraduate Medical Students' Learning Process in Doctor-patient Relationship Training

Keywords

Simulation training, role-play, psychiatry, students, medical, psychology, educational, learning

Brief summary

This study aims to explore learning process for undergraduate students in this doctor-patient relationship course. This study is one of the 3 studies included in a PhD on learning process during simulation training in psychiatry. The results of this 3 studies will aim at building a formative and summative assessment tool of competences specific to this pedagogic context.

Detailed description

Methodology: Mixed method study with: Qualitative : Grounded Theory analysis of : * Semi-structured interview of learners and teachers * Learning written traces of students Quantitative features: * Self-reported questionnaires on satisfaction * Sociodemographical data and others questions

Interventions

OTHERlecture

* Empathy (1 hour) * Doctor- patient relationship (1, 5 hour)

OTHERSimulation using Role play

* serious illness announcement * abuse demand management * reticent patient management

OTHERDiscussion group

Share about clinical work experience and elaboration about psychoaffective and relational challenge

OTHERSimulation using Simulated patient

* HIV announcement * Refuse of antibiotic prescription

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* Age \> to 18 years old * Undergraduate medical fourth-year student of Paris Descartes University * Taking part in an obligatory doctor-patient relationship training, including role play, simulated consultation, Balint group and courses * Draw by lot * French or English language * Agreement

Exclusion criteria

* Refusal of agreement * Undergraduate medical fourth-year student of Paris Descartes University who couldn't take part in an obligatory doctor-patient relationship training, including role play, simulated consultation, Balint group and courses

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Learning processes	2 hours	Learning processes according to students and teachers' perspective evaluated by face-to-face semi-structured interviews, faced with analysis of students' written apprenticeship traces

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
supporting or preventing factors of learning	2 hours	according to students and teachers' perspective evaluated by face-to-face semi-structured interviews, faced with analysis of students' written apprenticeship traces

Countries

France

Contacts

PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATORMarie-Aude PIOT, MD, PhD

Paris Descartes University, France

STUDY_CHAIRBruno FALISSART, MD, PhD

Paris Saclay South University, Faculty of medicine, Orsay, France

STUDY_CHAIRAntoine TESNIERE, Md, PhD

University of Paris 5 - Rene Descartes

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Mar 28, 2026