Including Insonation in Undergraduate Medical School Curriculum

Insonation, or the use of ultrasound, has been proposed to be included in the medical school curriculum, both for education and bedside physical examination. It is important to consider what impact insonation should have on medical student education. Increasingly students are exposed to ultrasound u...

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Autores principales:	Bret P. Nelson, Sukrit Narula, Edgar Argulian, Anjali Bhagra, Jagat Narula
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Publicado:	Ubiquity Press 2019
Materias:	Infectious and parasitic diseases RC109-216 Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:3f745a0f0abe43849cea985dd81f889b2021-12-02T04:48:18ZIncluding Insonation in Undergraduate Medical School Curriculum2214-999610.5334/aogh.2472https://doaj.org/article/3f745a0f0abe43849cea985dd81f889b2019-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://annalsofglobalhealth.org/articles/2472https://doaj.org/toc/2214-9996Insonation, or the use of ultrasound, has been proposed to be included in the medical school curriculum, both for education and bedside physical examination. It is important to consider what impact insonation should have on medical student education. Increasingly students are exposed to ultrasound use on clinical rotations, but to what extent should ultrasound be an integrated part of the preclinical curriculum in the United States? Ultrasound can serve to augment an existing curriculum in anatomy, physiology, physical examination, and disease assessment and treatment. In addition, the actual performance and interpretation of the insonation component of physical examination in real time may be an emerging skill set to be expected of medical students. Here we describe the utility and challenges of incorporating an ultrasound curriculum into undergraduate medical education, including examples from institutions that have pioneered this innovative curricular change.Bret P. NelsonSukrit NarulaEdgar ArgulianAnjali BhagraJagat NarulaUbiquity PressarticleInfectious and parasitic diseasesRC109-216Public aspects of medicineRA1-1270ENAnnals of Global Health, Vol 85, Iss 1 (2019)
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description	Insonation, or the use of ultrasound, has been proposed to be included in the medical school curriculum, both for education and bedside physical examination. It is important to consider what impact insonation should have on medical student education. Increasingly students are exposed to ultrasound use on clinical rotations, but to what extent should ultrasound be an integrated part of the preclinical curriculum in the United States? Ultrasound can serve to augment an existing curriculum in anatomy, physiology, physical examination, and disease assessment and treatment. In addition, the actual performance and interpretation of the insonation component of physical examination in real time may be an emerging skill set to be expected of medical students. Here we describe the utility and challenges of incorporating an ultrasound curriculum into undergraduate medical education, including examples from institutions that have pioneered this innovative curricular change.
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Including Insonation in Undergraduate Medical School Curriculum

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