Training auscultatory skills: computer simulated heart sounds or additional bedside training? A randomized trial on third-year medical students

BMC Medical Education

Research Article

Svein Solheim¹  Øystein Sverdrup²  Knut Gjesdal³  Torstein Jensen⁴ 

[1] Department of Cardiology, Ullevål University Hospital, Oslo, Norway;Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway;Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway;Department of Cardiology, Ullevål University Hospital, Oslo, Norway;Lovisenberg Deaconess Hospital, Oslo, Norway;

关键词: Medical Student;    Teaching Group;    Heart Sound;    Teaching Session;    Trainee Doctor;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1472-6920-10-3

 received in 2009-06-18, accepted in 2010-01-18,  发布年份 2010

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundThe present study compares the value of additional use of computer simulated heart sounds, to conventional bedside auscultation training, on the cardiac auscultation skills of 3rd year medical students at Oslo University Medical School.MethodsIn addition to their usual curriculum courses, groups of seven students each were randomized to receive four hours of additional auscultation training either employing a computer simulator system or adding on more conventional bedside training. Cardiac auscultation skills were afterwards tested using live patients. Each student gave a written description of the auscultation findings in four selected patients, and was rewarded from 0-10 points for each patient. Differences between the two study groups were evaluated using student's t-test.ResultsAt the auscultation test no significant difference in mean score was found between the students who had used additional computer based sound simulation compared to additional bedside training.ConclusionsStudents at an early stage of their cardiology training demonstrated equal performance of cardiac auscultation whether they had received an additional short auscultation course based on computer simulated training, or had had additional bedside training.

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