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Medical Residents Learning Weight Management Counseling Skills

Sponsor: University of Massachusetts, Worcester • ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT06529666

Registry updated: 2026-09-10

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Description

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.

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

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion Criteria: * All PGY1 residents in participating sites Inclusion Criteria for participating site: * The program is willing and able to incorporate the MRWeight program into the PGY1 core curriculum. * The residency director will allow PGY1s to complete surveys and curriculum evaluations online or in class and to complete a standardized assessment of their knowledge and use of WMC, and * The site will allow inclusion of three successive cohorts of PGY1s to ensure more than a sufficient number of residents to adequately test the effect of the intervention

Conditions

Weight Management Counseling

Locations

Stanford University — Palo Alto, California, United States
UC Davis — Sacramento, California, United States
Boston University — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Stony Brook — East Setauket, New York, United States
Albert Einstein College of Medicine — The Bronx, New York, United States
Penn State University — Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States
Temple University — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Houston Methodist — Houston, Texas, United States

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