Medical Residents Learning Weight Management Counseling Skills

Conditions

• Weight Management Counseling

Eligibility Criteria

Sex

ALL

Age

18 Years - N/A

Healthy Volunteers

Accepted

Interventions

• Didatic Session 1: Core Foundation Course — BEHAVIORAL
  A 45-minute foundational presentation covering key Weight Management Counseling (WMC) concepts, obesity bias, and cultural humility facilitated by a trained clinician-educator at the residency program delivered at baseline.
• The 3Ps Program — BEHAVIORAL
  6 email modules delivered over months 2-8). Each 3P module will allow the resident to: (1) Prepare: Review relevant concepts and demonstration videos sent via an email to prepare for completing the VCA vignettes; (2) Practice: Respond to brief vignettes of various 5As WMC challenging scenarios by audio recording their spoken response on the VCA tool; and (3) Process: Reflect on actionable expert and crowdsourced analogue patient feedback on the quality of their responses to each VCA vignette.
• Didactic session 2 — BEHAVIORAL
  (months 8-10): This 45-minute session will discuss key barriers to WMC adoption in clinical practice using real-world cases captured from residents facilitated by a trained clinician-educator at the residency program.
• Email reinforcement — BEHAVIORAL
  2 emails in months 10-12 covering key concepts in the preceding components.
• PowerPoint of the foundational course — BEHAVIORAL
  Residents will receive a core foundation slides on weight management counselling

Study Details

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.

Key Dates

Start date

Jun 10, 2024

Status verified

Sep 2025

Primary completion

Jun 30, 2026

Completion

Dec 30, 2027

Study Design

Enrollment

630 participants (estimated)

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

OTHER

Arms

• Active Comparator: Comparison Arm
  Residents in comparison arm receive a core foundation course and will take part in all 3 assessments (including 3 surveys and 2 video communication assessments) over the course of 18 months.
• Experimental: Intervention Arm
  Residents in the intervention arm will receive (in addition to the core foundation course) 6 email modules and practice video communication assessments on weight management counseling. They will also attend 2 educational session and take part in all 3 assessments (including 3 surveys and 2 video communication assessments) over the course of 18 months.

Primary Outcome Measure

WMC skills VCA (video Communications assessment) assessment [ Time Frame: Completed during month 1 and again at month 12 post recruitment. ]

Central Contacts

• RAJANI SADASIVAM, PhD
  (508) 856-8989
  [email protected]

Locations (8)

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