Scoping review of implementing a longitudinal curriculum in undergraduate medical education: The wake forest experience

The Ultrasound Journal

Casey Glass¹  Mary Claire O’Brien¹  Joshua Zavitz¹  JaNae Joyner²  Leilani L. Johnson³  Aarti Sarwal³  Julia Garcia-Vargas³  Joshua Nitsche⁴ 

[1] Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical Center, Wake Forest School of Medicine, 1 Winston-Salem, 27157, Boulevard, NC, USA;Department of Medical Education, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Medical Center, 1 Winston-Salem, 27157, Boulevard, NC, USA;Department of Neurology, Medical Center, Wake Forest School of Medicine, 1 Winston-Salem, 27157, Boulevard, NC, USA;Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Medical Center, 1 Winston-Salem, 27157, Boulevard, NC, USA;

关键词: Medical education;    Ultrasonography;    Undergraduate medical education;    Ultrasound;    Curriculum;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s13089-021-00206-w

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundHands-on ultrasound experience has become a desirable component for undergraduate medical education (UGME) curricula throughout medical schools in the United States (US) to enhance readiness for future training. Ultrasound integration can be a useful assistive educational method in undergraduate medical education to improve anatomy and physiology skills. Relatively few medical schools have integrated ultrasound experiences formally into their 4-year medical school curriculum due to limitations of a resource intensive set up.MethodsWe undertook a scoping review of published UGME ultrasound curricula integrated into all four years in peer-reviewed as well online literature. In addition, we provide a narrative review of our institutional experience in conceptualization, design and implementation of UGME ultrasound curriculum driven by need to address the fading knowledge in anatomy and physiology concepts beyond pre-clinical years.ResultsIntegrated ultrasound curriculum at WFSOM utilizes focused ultrasonography as a teaching aid for students to gain a more thorough understanding of basic and clinical science concepts taught in the medical school curriculum. We found 18 medical schools with ultrasound curricula published in peer-reviewed literature with a total of 33 ultrasound programs discovered by adding Google search and personal communicationConclusionsThe results of the review and our institutional experience can help inform future educators interested in developing similar curricula in their undergraduate programs. Common standards, milestones and standardized competency-based assessments would be helpful in more widespread application of ultrasound in UGME curricula.

【 授权许可】

CC BY