Preclinical Medical Student Echocardiography Training American Society of Echocardiography Curriculum

NCT04083924 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 2019-00265
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 58
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The investigators would like to evaluate how well pre-clinical medical students are able to perform a basic transthoracic echocardiography examination on a healthy volunteer using a hand-held ultrasound (HHU) after completing a flipped classroom echocardiography training methods which consist of pre-training e-learning, hands-on training, and competency assessment after the hands-on training.

Conditions

Echocardiography; Medical Student; Transthoracic Echocardiography; Education

Keywords

Preclinical medical students; Handheld ultrasound; Butterfly iQ; Basic cardiac ultrasound; Focused cardiac ultrasound; Point of care; Training; Education; Flipped classroom

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Image quality score change from pre-training to eight weeks after training.

  Image quality score of five basic cardiac ultrasound views assessed by predefined test scoring system. In the scoring system, each view is assessed excellent (2 points), acceptable (1 points), or poor (0 point) for clinical use. Summed, total score, thus, ranges from 0 to 10 points.

  Eight weeks after hands-on training.

Secondary Outcomes (10)

• Image quality score change from pre-training to immediately after training.

  Immediately after hands-on training.

• Knowledge test score change from pre-training to eight weeks after training.

  Eight weeks after hands-on training.

• Knowledge test score change from pre-training to immediately after training.

  Immediately after hands-on training.

• Overall 5-point Likert scale participants training satisfaction

  Immediately after hands-on training.

• Overall 5-point Likert scale participants training satisfaction

  Eight weeks after hands-on training.

Study Arms (1)

Basic cardiac ultrasound training

EXPERIMENTAL

Single group education intervention study. No control group. Pre-post educational outcomes only.

Other: Basic cardiac ultrasound training with Butterfly iQ handheld ultrasound

Interventions

Basic cardiac ultrasound training with Butterfly iQ handheld ultrasound OTHER

Pre-training online module of the American society of Echocardiography and hands-on training of basic cardiac ultrasound with Butterfly iQ handheld ultrasound.

Basic cardiac ultrasound training

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Participants must be preclinical medical students (1st year or 2nd year) at John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii.
• Participants are eligible after completion of 1st year medical student core cardiology curriculum at John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii.

You may not qualify if:

• None

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Hawaii: lead

Study Sites (1)

SimTiki Simulation Center, John A. Burns school of medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Honolulu, Hawaii, 96813, United States

Location

Related Publications (2)

• Johri AM, Durbin J, Newbigging J, Tanzola R, Chow R, De S, Tam J. Cardiac Point-of-Care Ultrasound: State-of-the-Art in Medical School Education. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2018 Jul;31(7):749-760. doi: 10.1016/j.echo.2018.01.014. Epub 2018 Mar 15.

  PMID: 29550326 BACKGROUND

• Jujo S, Lee-Jayaram JJ, Sakka BI, Nakahira A, Kataoka A, Izumo M, Kusunose K, Athinartrattanapong N, Oikawa S, Berg BW. Pre-clinical medical student cardiac point-of-care ultrasound curriculum based on the American Society of Echocardiography recommendations: a pilot and feasibility study. Pilot Feasibility Stud. 2021 Sep 14;7(1):175. doi: 10.1186/s40814-021-00910-3.

  PMID: 34521479 DERIVED

Related Links

• Online training module for Cardiovascular Point-of-Care Imaging for the Medical Student and Novice User on American Society of Echocardiography web site

Study Officials

• Benjamin W Berg, MD

  SimTiki Simulation Center, John A. Burns School of Medicine.

  STUDY DIRECTOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Research Scholar

Model Details: Pre-post education intervention study

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: September 3, 2019
• First Posted: September 10, 2019
• Study Start: September 9, 2019
• Primary Completion: May 31, 2020
• Study Completion: May 31, 2020
• Last Updated: November 9, 2020

Record last verified: 2020-11

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (1)