Recruiting

Weight Management

Sponsor:

University of Massachusetts, Worcester

Code:

NCT06529666

Conditions

Weight Management Counseling

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

Didatic Session 1: Core Foundation Course

The 3Ps Program

Didactic session 2

Email reinforcement

PowerPoint of the foundational course

Study Details

Brief summary:

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.

Conditions

Weight Management Counseling

Study ID

NCT06529666

Start date

Jun 10, 2024

Status verified date

Sep, 2025

Completion date

Dec 30, 2027

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Jun 30, 2026

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

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

Study Design

Enrollment

630 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Other

Interventions and Outcome Measures

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.

Interventions

Didatic Session 1: Core Foundation Course

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

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

(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

2 emails in months 10-12 covering key concepts in the preceding components.

PowerPoint of the foundational course

Residents will receive a core foundation slides on weight management counselling

Primary outcome measure

  • WMC skills VCA (video Communications assessment) assessment [ Time Frame: Completed during month 1 and again at month 12 post recruitment. ]
  • Change in WMC skills assessment [ Time Frame: Completed during months 1, 12 and 18 post recruitment. ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

RAJANI SADASIVAM, PhD

(508) 856-8989Rajani.Sadasivam@umassmed.edu

Locations

Stanford University

Recruiting

Palo Alto, California, United States, 94304

Contacts

Kim Chiang, MD

650-498-9000kichiang@stanford.edu

Principal Investigator:

Kim Chiang, MD

UC Davis

Recruiting

Sacramento, California, United States, 95820

Contacts

Stephany Sanchez, MD

800-282-3284stesanchez@UCDAVIS.EDU

Principal Investigator:

Stephany Sanchez, MD

Stony Brook

Recruiting

East Setauket, New York, United States, 11733

Contacts

Patricia NG, MD

631-444-4630Patricia.Ng@stonybrookmedicine.edu

Principal Investigator:

Patricia NG, MD

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Recruiting

The Bronx, New York, United States, 10467

Contacts

Jing Yu Pan, MD

718-920-2273jpan1@montefiore.org

Principal Investigator:

Jing Yu Pan, MD

Penn State University

Recruiting

Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States, 17033

Contacts

Eliana Hempel, MD

717-531-5160ehempel@pennstatehealth.psu.edu

Principal Investigator:

Eliana Hempel, MD

Temple University

Recruiting

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19140

Contacts

Sharon Herring, MD, MPH

800-836-7536sharon.herring@temple.edu

Principal Investigator:

Sharon Herring, MD,MPH

Houston Methodist

Recruiting

Houston, Texas, United States, 77030

Contacts

Melina Awar, MD

713-441-0006mawar@houstonmethodist.org

Principal Investigator:

Melina Awar, MD

More Information

Sponsor

University of Massachusetts, Worcester

Last update posted

Sep 10, 2025

Last verified

Sep, 2025

Keywords

  • weight management counseling
  • Internship and Residency
  • skills and adoption

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-08. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by University of Massachusetts, Worcester on 2025-09-10.