Use of Simulation Based Training to Enhance Cardiac Auscultation Proficiency
Year: 2020
Type: article
Study design: Clinical Trial
Abstract: This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. INTRODUCTION: Cardiopulmonary auscultation is an important skill for medical professionals with deficiencies being well documented with broad implications on healthcare. Providing ideal bedside auscultatory teaching presents many difficulties. Simulation has been used as a means to improve cardiac auscultatory training and circumvent some of these limitations. METHODS: year of school (during the clinical portion of medical school curriculum) rotating through an Internal Medicine rotation completed a 2 hour training course on cardiac auscultation using Harvey © to identify six common cardiac murmurs. The session contained a pretest, didactic session, and posttest. RESULTS: 124 students participated in the auscultatory training session. Of them, 42 (34%) underwent the session a second time at an average of 1.29 months from their first session. There was statistically significant improvement between tests. Notably, the most often missed murmurs were mitral stenosis and benign (innocent) flow murmur. DISCUSSION/CONCLUSIONS: As shown in our study, simulation based cardiac auscultatory education is feasible and likely beneficial in medical education as it can be delivered to a large group of trainees and overcomes the challenges of bedside teaching.
Source: MedEdPublish
Authors: Matthew Lavoie, Bernard Roth, Jeffrey Kunz
Institution: Madigan Army Medical Center
Language: English
Subfield: Physiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $1,589
OpenAlex ID: W3105880786