Do you hear what you see? Utilizing phonocardiography to enhance proficiency in cardiac auscultation.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Cardiac auscultation skills have proven difficult to train and maintain. The authors investigated whether using phonocardiograms as visual adjuncts to audio cases improved first-year medical students' cardiac auscultation performance.

Methods

The authors randomized 135 first-year medical students using an email referral link in 2018 and 2019 to train using audio-only cases (audio group) or audio with phonocardiogram tracings (combined group). Training included 7 cases with normal and abnormal auscultation findings. The assessment included feature identification and diagnostic accuracy using 14 audio-only cases, 7 presented during training, and 7 alternate versions of the same diagnoses. The assessment-administered immediately after training and repeated 7 days l

SUBMITTER: Watsjold B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8187497 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature