Self-learning of point-of-care cardiac ultrasound - Can medical students teach themselves?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Point-of-care ultrasonography (PoCUS) is a rapidly evolving discipline that aims to train non-cardiologists, non-radiologists clinicians in performing bedside ultrasound to guide clinical decision. Training of PoCUS is challenging, time-consuming and requires large amount of resources. The objective of our study was to evaluate if this training process can be simplified by allowing medical students self-train themselves with a web-based cardiac ultrasound software.

Methods

A prospective, single blinded, cohort study, comparing performance of 29 medical students in performing a six-minutes cardiac ultrasound exam. Students were divided into two groups: self-learning group, using a combination of E-learning software and self-practice using pocket ultrasound device c

SUBMITTER: Fuchs L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6160010 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature