Using Ultrasound to Enhance Medical Students' Femoral Vascular Physical Examination Skills

Ahn, JoongHo; French, Arthur B.; Thiessen, Molly E.W.; Browne, Vaughn A.; Deutchman, Mark; Guiton, Gretchen; Madigosky, Wendy S.; Kendall, John L.

doi:10.7863/ultra.15.14.11014

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“…Neither approach looks at an entire course in a holistic fashion. Study methods used were survey and questionnaire responses, pretests and posttests designed explicitly for a POCUS cohort, and US‐specific OSCEs, which were separate from a traditional curriculum . Two recent studies suggest benefits of pairing US curricula with physical examination courses, but overall the current literature offers a piecemeal approach to understanding the effects of POCUS in UME, and a more general approach is needed to define particular ways and specific areas in which POCUS aids a full curriculum.…”

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“…Point‐of‐care ultrasound (POCUS) is a potentially powerful adjunct to undergraduate medical education (UME), with the capacity to enhance and reinforce students' understanding of basic sciences, physical examination maneuvers, procedural confidence, and diagnostic accuracy . Advocates of these benefits suggest that POCUS teaching to beginner trainees may ultimately affect patient care .…”

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Point‐of‐Care Ultrasound: Does it Affect Scores on Standardized Assessment Tests Used Within the Preclinical Curriculum?

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J of Ultrasound Medicine

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Point‐of‐Care Ultrasound: Does it Affect Scores on Standardized Assessment Tests Used Within the Preclinical Curriculum?

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Donroe

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J of Ultrasound Medicine

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“…Dinh et al [46] found that students that had ultrasound incorporated into their physical examination curriculum obtained greater OSCE scores than a cohort of students that took the exams prior to the introduction of ultrasound, in the same medical school. The educational interventions found here range from those that teach students to scan a wide range of anatomy [47,48] or regional anatomy [49] to more focused exams of the vascular [50][51][52], abdominal [53][54][55], head and neck [56], cardiac [57,58] and respiratory [59] systems. Some institutions taught students ultrasound-specific protocols such as FAST [60][61][62] or USEFUL [63] scans.…”

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A Scoping Review of Ultrasound Teaching in Undergraduate Medical Education

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Introduction Increasingly, medical schools are integrating Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) into their curricula. This review investigated the available literature on how best to integrate POCUS in the teaching of medical students and the benefits of doing so. Methods Given the heterogeneous literature that has emerged on POCUS education, a scoping review was conducted. Relevant medical databases, including PubMed, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, EMBASE and CINAHL, were searched between January 1980 and August 2016, using keywords identified by the authors. Inclusion criteria were as follows: prospective or retrospective studies, observational or intervention studies, and studies describing how medical students learn to use ultrasound. Results The literature search yielded 593 articles, of which 128 met the inclusion criteria. Studies that met the inclusion criteria were sub-categorised under the following headings: those that described or evaluated an ultrasound curriculum, those that employed ultrasound as a means of teaching another topic in the curriculum (i.e., anatomy, physical examination, physiology, invasive procedures), those that investigated the learning curve of ultrasound education and those that employed adjuncts or peer mentoring to teach ultrasound. Conclusions The reviewed literature indicates that the integration of ultrasound in undergraduate medical education is both feasible and beneficial to medical students. This article is intended to inform medical educators aiming to integrate ultrasound into their medical school curricula.

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“…US has been used in various studies to improve medical students' clinical examination skills [13][14][15][16]. The majority of the studies focused on students' skills to detect liver margins [13,14], inferior limit of the lung or thyroid size [15], or to localize femoral artery and vein [16].…”

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“…The majority of the studies focused on students' skills to detect liver margins [13,14], inferior limit of the lung or thyroid size [15], or to localize femoral artery and vein [16].…”

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Musculoskeletal ultrasound: an effective tool to help medical students improve joint inflammation detection?

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Aim: The objective of this study was to evaluate whether musculoskeletal (MS) ultrasound (US) can be useful in helping medical students to detect joint inflammation through physical examination. Material and methods: The study was performed by two groups of four 6 th year medical students. None had received any previous training in the clinical examination of joints or the use of ultrasound. Students were put through a 5-session training programme on the clinical detection of either knee [group 1] or metacarpophalangeal (MCP) [group 2] inflammation. After an initial training session on physical examination of normal and inflamed joints, the students examined 170 joints from 41 patients attending the hospital outpatient clinic in 4 separate sessions. The same joints were assessed for synovitis with US with the ensuing data compared to that of the students and analyzed for concordance with Cohen's unweighted kappa. Results: In total 60 knees [group 1] and 110 MCP [group 2] were evaluated. The agreement between the presence of arthritis detected by the students in the four sessions and the presence of synovitis detected by US improved from the session I to sessions III with a marked improvement in the last session. Conclusions: MSUS may be an effective technique for helping students to acquire the ability to detect joint inflammation.

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Using Ultrasound to Enhance Medical Students' Femoral Vascular Physical Examination Skills

Cited by 28 publications

References 22 publications

Point‐of‐Care Ultrasound: Does it Affect Scores on Standardized Assessment Tests Used Within the Preclinical Curriculum?

Point‐of‐Care Ultrasound: Does it Affect Scores on Standardized Assessment Tests Used Within the Preclinical Curriculum?

A Scoping Review of Ultrasound Teaching in Undergraduate Medical Education

Musculoskeletal ultrasound: an effective tool to help medical students improve joint inflammation detection?

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