Khadija Guejdad, Ali Ikrou, Camilla Strandell-Laine, Redouane Abouqal, Jihane Belayachi
Healthcare Students' Perceptions of the Quality of the Clinical Learning Environment in Morocco: A Cross-Sectional Study
Nursing research and practice
medical students essential role medical research yet often lack opportunities involvement within randomised trials study aimed understand educational impact clinical trial recruitment medical students tracking wound infection smartphone technology twist randomised controlled trial included adult patients undergoing emergency abdominal surgery across two university teaching hospitals recruiters underwent prerecruitment training based generating student recruiters randomised trials principles completed prerecruitment postrecruitment surveys respondent agreement statements assessed using 5point likert scales 1 strongly disagree 5 strongly agree quantitative data analysed using paired ttests compare differences preinvolvement postinvolvement thematic content analysis performed freetext data generate recommendations future student research involvement 492 patients recruited twist 26 july 2016 4 march 2020 860 n423 recruited medical students following introduction student coinvestigators n31 overall monthly recruitment rate tripled 48157 patients 968 recruiters n3031 completed surveys respondents reported significant improvement clinical academic competencies three higherlevel thematic domains emerged qualitative analysis 1 engagement 2 preparation 3 ongoing support student recruitment clinical trials feasible accelerates recruitment clinical trials students demonstrated novel clinical research competencies increased likelihood future involvement adequate training support selection suitable trials essential future student involvement randomised trials