Evaluation of a digitally enhanced cardiac auscultation learning method: a controlled study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cardiac auscultation remains an efficient and accessible diagnostic tool, especially in resource-limited countries where modern diagnostic devices like cardiac ultrasound are expensive and difficult to access. However, cardiac auscultation skills of medical students and physicians are declining, mainly because of an ineffective teaching method for this technique. The objective of this study is to evaluate the effect of a digitally enhanced cardiac auscultation learning method on participants' theoretical knowledge and auscultation skills.

Methods

This will be a controlled study with two parallel arms (1:1). Participants (fourth-year medical students) will be divided into two groups: an intervention group (receiving additional lectures, clinical internship and audi

SUBMITTER: Goethe Doualla FC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8273941 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature