NCT03412032

Comparison of Two Summative Assessment Methods in Advanced Life Support Courses

Comparison of Two Summative Assessment Methods in Advanced Life Support Courses - a Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 428 (actual)
• Sponsor: Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Several approaches for summative assessment during Advanced Life Support courses are used. The most commonly used method during European Resuscitation (ERC) Council Life Support Courses is that 1 instructor is miming a whole team, and the candidate has to lead this "team" through a scenario; another variant of the summative assessment (mainly used by American Heart Association (AHA) Courses) is with a group of students, where one student is the team leader to be assessed and the others are his team not being assessed. The second approach might be more realistic; however there is no evidence around with regard to effectiveness (pass/fail rate, ability to test non-technical skills (NTS)) or participant/assessor satisfaction.

Conditions

• Self-Assessment

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	assessment	different assessments in both arms

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-12-02
• Primary completion: 2019-06-30
• Completion: 2019-12-31
• First posted: 2018-01-26
• Last updated: 2020-02-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Switzerland