Teaching Ultrasound at the Point of Care in Times of Social Distancing.

ABSTRACT: Point-of-care ultrasound has become an integral aspect of critical care training. The Bedside Assessment by Sonography In Critical Care Medicine Curriculum was established at the University of Toronto to train critical care trainees in basic echocardiography and general critical care ultrasound. During the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, our program needed to adapt quickly to ensure staff safety and adherence to infection-control protocols. In this article, we share our experience and reflect on the challenges and benefits of shifting from a primarily in-person teaching model to a hybrid model of remote and in-person teaching. Curricular changes were threefold: the transition to entirely web-based interactive didactic teaching and online imaging interpretation modules, the recruit

SUBMITTER: Jackson R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8519320 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature