Outcomes of three different ways to train medical students as ultrasound tutors
Celebi, Nora, Griewatz, Jan, Malek, Nisar Peter, Hoffmann, Tatjana, Walter, Carina, Muller, Reinhold, Riessen, Reimer, Pauluschke-Fröhlich, Jan, Debove, Ines, Zipfel, Stephan, and Fröhlich, Eckhart (2019) Outcomes of three different ways to train medical students as ultrasound tutors. BMC Medical Education, 19. 125.
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Abstract
Background: In order to provide faculty-wide undergraduate ultrasound training in times of scarce resources, many medical faculties employ trained peer-student tutors to oversee the hands-on training. However, data to guide the training of ultrasound peer-student tutors are scarce. We conducted a prospective quasi-randomized study to assess the gain in theoretical knowledge and practical scanning skills of peer-student tutors who were trained with a course only, an internship only, or the combination of a course and an internship.
Methods: A total of 44 peer-student tutors were trained by a one-week course only (C-Group, n=21), by an internship only (I-Group, n=10) or by a course and an internship (CI-Group, n=13). Prior to and after the completion of the training the peer-student tutors completed an MC-test (theoretical knowledge) and an OSCE (practical scanning skills).
Results: With all three education concepts, the peer-student tutors had significant and comparable gains in theoretical knowledge (C-group +90%, I-group +61.5%, CI-group +114.0%) and practical scanning skills (C-group +112.0%, I-group +155.0% and CI-group +123.5%), all p<0.001.
Conclusion: Peer-student tutors, who were trained with a course or an internship or a course and internship improved their theoretical knowledge and their practical scanning skills significantly and to a comparable degree.
| Item ID: | 58345 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 1472-6920 |
| Keywords: | Undergraduate medical education, Ultrasound education, Student instructor education, Ultrasound tutor skill acquisition, Internship, Course |
| Copyright Information: | © The Author(s). 2019 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
| Funders: | University of Tuebingen, Germany |
| Projects and Grants: | Project F.7281048 |
| Date Deposited: | 22 May 2019 07:41 |
| FoR Codes: | 39 EDUCATION > 3901 Curriculum and pedagogy > 390110 Medicine, nursing and health curriculum and pedagogy @ 50% 32 BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL SCIENCES > 3202 Clinical sciences > 320222 Radiology and organ imaging @ 50% |
| SEO Codes: | 97 EXPANDING KNOWLEDGE > 970111 Expanding Knowledge in the Medical and Health Sciences @ 100% |
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