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CTRI Number  CTRI/2025/02/080107 [Registered on: 07/02/2025] Trial Registered Prospectively
Last Modified On: 31/01/2025
Post Graduate Thesis  No 
Type of Trial  Interventional 
Type of Study   Other (Specify) [Retrieval of medical intervention]  
Study Design  Single Arm Study 
Public Title of Study   Training medical students to enhance their clinically oriented searching skills  
Scientific Title of Study   Evaluation of a training program for medical students for enhancing their searching skills pertaining to clinical scenarios  
Trial Acronym  NIL 
Secondary IDs if Any  
Secondary ID  Identifier 
NIL  NIL 
 
Details of Principal Investigator or overall Trial Coordinator (multi-center study)  
Name  Dr Siddharth Sarkar 
Designation  Additional Professor 
Affiliation  AIIMS, New Delhi 
Address  Department of Psychiatry and National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre (NDDTC), Room No 4096, Teaching Block, AIIMS, New Delhi - 110029

South
DELHI
110029
India 
Phone  9786022145  
Fax    
Email  sidsarkar22@gmail.com  
 
Details of Contact Person
Scientific Query
 
Name  Dr Siddharth Sarkar 
Designation  Additional Professor 
Affiliation  AIIMS, New Delhi 
Address  Department of Psychiatry and National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre (NDDTC), Room No 4096, Teaching Block, AIIMS, New Delhi - 110029


DELHI
110029
India 
Phone  9786022145  
Fax    
Email  sidsarkar22@gmail.com  
 
Details of Contact Person
Public Query
 
Name  Dr Siddharth Sarkar 
Designation  Additional Professor 
Affiliation  AIIMS, New Delhi 
Address  Department of Psychiatry and National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre (NDDTC), Room No 4096, Teaching Block, AIIMS, New Delhi - 110029


DELHI
110029
India 
Phone  9786022145  
Fax    
Email  sidsarkar22@gmail.com  
 
Source of Monetary or Material Support  
AIIMS, New Delhi 
 
Primary Sponsor  
Name  AIIMS, New Delhi 
Address  All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, India - 110029 
Type of Sponsor  Government medical college 
 
Details of Secondary Sponsor  
Name  Address 
NIL  NIL 
 
Countries of Recruitment     India  
Sites of Study  
No of Sites = 1  
Name of Principal Investigator  Name of Site  Site Address  Phone/Fax/Email 
Dr Siddharth Sarkar  All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi  Department of Psychiatry and National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre (NDDTC), Room 4096, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi - 110029
South
DELHI 
9786022145

sidsarkar22@gmail.com 
 
Details of Ethics Committee  
No of Ethics Committees= 1  
Name of Committee  Approval Status 
AIIMS, New Delhi  Approved 
 
Regulatory Clearance Status from DCGI  
Status 
Not Applicable 
 
Health Condition / Problems Studied  
Health Type  Condition 
Healthy Human Volunteers  The participants would be medical students. This is an intervention on teaching.  
 
Intervention / Comparator Agent  
Type  Name  Details 
Comparator Agent  NOT APPLICABLE  NOT APPLICABLE 
Intervention  Workshop (training)   Intervention would be only on one day (Total duration of intervention approximately 3 hours). The workshop would be conducted for half a day and would cover various aspects of making clinically relevant and efficient searches related to scenarios in the clinical setting. The interactive workshop would have 2 interactive lectures and 2 group work. The workshop would be followed by feedback and post-assessment (Day 0 assessment). 
 
Inclusion Criteria  
Age From  18.00 Year(s)
Age To  35.00 Year(s)
Gender  Both 
Details  Medical students (3rd year and above), aged 18 years and above, willing to participate 
 
ExclusionCriteria 
Details  Unwilling to participate.  
 
Method of Generating Random Sequence   Not Applicable 
Method of Concealment   Not Applicable 
Blinding/Masking   Not Applicable 
Primary Outcome  
Outcome  TimePoints 
Confidence in the ability to provide answers to clinical scenarios (rated on a visual analog scale of 1 to 10)  This would be assessed at baseline, Day 0 after the intervention, and then at 4 weeks 
 
Secondary Outcome  
Outcome  TimePoints 
Acceptability of workshop; Feasibility of conduct & issues encountered.  Day 0 immediately after the workshop intervention 
 
Target Sample Size   Total Sample Size="30"
Sample Size from India="30" 
Final Enrollment numbers achieved (Total)= "35"
Final Enrollment numbers achieved (India)="35" 
Phase of Trial   N/A 
Date of First Enrollment (India)   28/02/2025 
Date of Study Completion (India) 07/05/2025 
Date of First Enrollment (Global)  Date Missing 
Date of Study Completion (Global) 07/05/2025 
Estimated Duration of Trial   Years="0"
Months="2"
Days="0" 
Recruitment Status of Trial (Global)   Closed to Recruitment of Participants 
Recruitment Status of Trial (India)  Completed 
Publication Details   N/A 
Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement

Will individual participant data (IPD) be shared publicly (including data dictionaries)?  

Response - NO
Brief Summary  

With time, medical information has exploded. Information is available through electronic sources. However, it is not possible for an individual to go through all the sources of information. Meanwhile, patients have become ‘tech savvy’ and information is available to them as well on their fingertips. This has necessitated medical professionals of the future to be aware of methods to access the updated clinically relevant information available through the internet, and provide contextually relevant appropriate and accurate information of the patients in clinical practice. Formulating a concise search questions, making efficient searches, interpreting the answers and providing answers in an understandable manner is an important skill for the medical students. As of now, the medical curriculum in India does not have a provision for teaching students for making efficient searches for clinically relevant scenarios, though such a skill is likely to be useful in clinical practice subsequently. Thus, there is a necessity to develop training modules for making more effective searches and test them on available parameters.  The present study would be a single group pre-post design wherein medical students would be taught about enhancing clinically oriented searches. Medical students (3rd year and above), aged 18 years and above, willing to participate would be taught in workshop format. The primary outcome measure would be confidence in the ability to provide answers to clinical scenarios (rated on a visual analogue scale of 1 to 10). Acceptability of workshop; Feasibility of conduct and issues encountered would be the secondary outcome measures. 

 
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