First Year Medical Students, Personal Handheld Ultrasound Devices, and Introduction of Insonation in Medical Education

Background: Ultrasound education has been provided to students in medical schools within and beyond the United States. A formal experiment with use of personal handheld ultrasound equipment by all first-year medical students has not been reported. Employing insonation (an application of ultrasound)...

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Autores principales:	Mollie Ireson, Simrit Warring, Jose R. Medina-Inojosa, Maria T. O'malley, Wojciech Pawlina, Nirusha Lachman, Jagat Narula, Anjali Bhagra
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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:f60a78fd634745c4abbffeff62b429582021-12-02T09:17:33ZFirst Year Medical Students, Personal Handheld Ultrasound Devices, and Introduction of Insonation in Medical Education2214-999610.5334/aogh.2565https://doaj.org/article/f60a78fd634745c4abbffeff62b429582019-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://annalsofglobalhealth.org/articles/2565https://doaj.org/toc/2214-9996Background: Ultrasound education has been provided to students in medical schools within and beyond the United States. A formal experiment with use of personal handheld ultrasound equipment by all first-year medical students has not been reported. Employing insonation (an application of ultrasound) at the personal leisure by medical school freshmen enables self-directed learning throughout the academic year. Methods: We describe a peer-led ultrasound curriculum with handheld devices. The students’ perceptions were gathered through quarterly Likert-style questionnaires, and the differences in the categories were tested using Analysis of Variance. Results: The response rate was 58.5% for the first survey (n = 32), 56% (n = 30) for the second survey, and 62.3% (n = 33) for the final survey, respectively, with an average response rate of 58.9%. At the baseline survey, overall agreement was observed for enhancement on performance (62.5%) and interpretation (56.3) of ultrasounds, understanding (68.8%) and learning of anatomy (61.3%), ease (78.1%), comfort (59.4%) and benefit of incorporation of insonation in the medical school curricula (all p-values < 0.001). Neutral response (38.7%) or disagreement (38.7%) was observed when assessing the effect of the integration in medical curriculum on specialty choice (p < 0.01). These trends remained constant over follow-up with the exception that the perceived benefit for integration of insonation into the longitudinal curricula (p < 0.05) increased significantly over time. Majority of disagreement was observed regarding current access to the personal ultrasound devices (38.7%) (p < 0.001). Conclusions: The introduction of insonation through personal handheld ultrasound devices in the first-year medical school curriculum was received enthusiastically by students, with the majority of respondents finding the devices both easy to use and a valuable aid to improving their understanding of the three-dimensional anatomy.Mollie IresonSimrit WarringJose R. Medina-InojosaMaria T. O'malleyWojciech PawlinaNirusha LachmanJagat NarulaAnjali BhagraUbiquity PressarticleInfectious and parasitic diseasesRC109-216Public aspects of medicineRA1-1270ENAnnals of Global Health, Vol 85, Iss 1 (2019)
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spellingShingle	Infectious and parasitic diseases RC109-216 Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270 Mollie Ireson Simrit Warring Jose R. Medina-Inojosa Maria T. O'malley Wojciech Pawlina Nirusha Lachman Jagat Narula Anjali Bhagra First Year Medical Students, Personal Handheld Ultrasound Devices, and Introduction of Insonation in Medical Education
description	Background: Ultrasound education has been provided to students in medical schools within and beyond the United States. A formal experiment with use of personal handheld ultrasound equipment by all first-year medical students has not been reported. Employing insonation (an application of ultrasound) at the personal leisure by medical school freshmen enables self-directed learning throughout the academic year. Methods: We describe a peer-led ultrasound curriculum with handheld devices. The students’ perceptions were gathered through quarterly Likert-style questionnaires, and the differences in the categories were tested using Analysis of Variance. Results: The response rate was 58.5% for the first survey (n = 32), 56% (n = 30) for the second survey, and 62.3% (n = 33) for the final survey, respectively, with an average response rate of 58.9%. At the baseline survey, overall agreement was observed for enhancement on performance (62.5%) and interpretation (56.3) of ultrasounds, understanding (68.8%) and learning of anatomy (61.3%), ease (78.1%), comfort (59.4%) and benefit of incorporation of insonation in the medical school curricula (all p-values < 0.001). Neutral response (38.7%) or disagreement (38.7%) was observed when assessing the effect of the integration in medical curriculum on specialty choice (p < 0.01). These trends remained constant over follow-up with the exception that the perceived benefit for integration of insonation into the longitudinal curricula (p < 0.05) increased significantly over time. Majority of disagreement was observed regarding current access to the personal ultrasound devices (38.7%) (p < 0.001). Conclusions: The introduction of insonation through personal handheld ultrasound devices in the first-year medical school curriculum was received enthusiastically by students, with the majority of respondents finding the devices both easy to use and a valuable aid to improving their understanding of the three-dimensional anatomy.
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author	Mollie Ireson Simrit Warring Jose R. Medina-Inojosa Maria T. O'malley Wojciech Pawlina Nirusha Lachman Jagat Narula Anjali Bhagra
author_facet	Mollie Ireson Simrit Warring Jose R. Medina-Inojosa Maria T. O'malley Wojciech Pawlina Nirusha Lachman Jagat Narula Anjali Bhagra
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title	First Year Medical Students, Personal Handheld Ultrasound Devices, and Introduction of Insonation in Medical Education
title_short	First Year Medical Students, Personal Handheld Ultrasound Devices, and Introduction of Insonation in Medical Education
title_full	First Year Medical Students, Personal Handheld Ultrasound Devices, and Introduction of Insonation in Medical Education
title_fullStr	First Year Medical Students, Personal Handheld Ultrasound Devices, and Introduction of Insonation in Medical Education
title_full_unstemmed	First Year Medical Students, Personal Handheld Ultrasound Devices, and Introduction of Insonation in Medical Education
title_sort	first year medical students, personal handheld ultrasound devices, and introduction of insonation in medical education
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url	https://doaj.org/article/f60a78fd634745c4abbffeff62b42958
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First Year Medical Students, Personal Handheld Ultrasound Devices, and Introduction of Insonation in Medical Education

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