Family Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Clinical Pharmacy, Winchester District Memorial Hospital, Winchester, Ontario, Canada.
BMJ Open Qual. 2021 May;10(2). doi: 10.1136/bmjoq-2021-001385.
To design, implement and assess an online learning module for third-year and fourth-year medical students addressing medication safety.
This study was a prospective, parallel, open-label, randomised controlled trial with two arms: (1) a control arm in which students were given five articles to read about medication safety, and (2) an intervention arm in which students were given access to an interactive web-based learning module on medication safety. Pretesting and post-testing were done online to evaluate change in medication safety knowledge.
Ten students completed the study in the intervention group (online module) and six students completed the study in the control group. The increase in score obtained on the post-test, relative to the pretest, was 15.4% in the group who completed the online module and 2.0% in the control group (difference=13.4%, 95% CI 0.5% to 26.2%, p=0.04).
Students who completed an online educational tool about medication safety demonstrated a significantly greater increase in knowledge than those who completed a few readings. Online learning modules can be a convenient and effective means of teaching safe prescribing concepts to medical trainees.
为三年级和四年级医学生设计、实施和评估一个关于药物安全的在线学习模块。
本研究为前瞻性、平行、开放标签、随机对照试验，分为两组：（1）对照组，学生阅读五篇关于药物安全的文章；（2）干预组，学生可访问药物安全的互动式网络学习模块。进行预测试和后测试以评估药物安全知识的变化。
10 名学生完成了干预组（在线模块）的研究，6 名学生完成了对照组的研究。与预测试相比，完成在线模块的组在后测试中的得分增加了 15.4%，对照组增加了 2.0%（差异=13.4%，95%置信区间 0.5%至 26.2%，p=0.04）。
完成药物安全在线教育工具的学生的知识增加明显高于仅完成少量阅读的学生。在线学习模块可以成为向医学实习生教授安全处方概念的便捷有效的手段。
