General Practitioners' POCUS Competence Following Structured Training

NCT05274581 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: ID 242-2
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 18
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The overarching aim of this study is to investigate whether a new educational point-of-care ultrasound course tailored for general practitioners working in office-based general practice can lead to scanning competence at the end of the training program (three months after baseline) and if scanning competence can be maintained six months after baseline.

Conditions

Ultrasound; General Practice; Family Medicine; Education; Competence

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Participants' ultrasound competence score after three months

  Participants' ultrasound competence score across ten scanning modalities (The Objective Structured Assessment of Ultrasound Skills (OSAUS)) after the educational period

  three months after baseline

• Participants' ultrasound compentence score after six months

  Participants' ultrasound competence score across ten scanning modalities (The Objective Structured Assessment of Ultrasound Skills (OSAUS)) six months after baseline

  six months after baseline

Secondary Outcomes (5)

• Participants' ultrasound competence items scores

  three months after baseline

• Participants' ultrasound compentence scores above avarage after three months

  three months after baseline

• Participants' ultrasound compentence scores above avarage after six months

  six months after baseline

• Participants' self-rated ultrasound compentence after three months

  three months after baseline

• Participants' self-rated ultrasound compentence after six months

  six months after baseline

Other Outcomes (3)

• Number of performed POCUS examinations

  months 1-6 after baseline

• Number of adverse events and near-miss cases

  months 1-6 after baseline

• Participants' completion of educational elements

  months 1-3 after baseline

Study Arms (1)

Course participants

Course participants er general practitioners who have signed-up to participate in an ultrasound course

Other: A new type of ultrasound course

Interventions

A new type of ultrasound course OTHER

All participants will receive the educational intervention. The educations intervention consists of three teaching seminars over three months, a curriculum of 10 point-of-care ultrasound applications, an online learning platform providing educational support before, during and after the teaching sessions.

Course participants

Eligibility Criteria

• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)
• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Twenty GPs working in office-based general practice in Denmark, who have signed up for a PLO-e ultrasound course, will be invited to participate in the study. To participate a GPs must fulfill the inclusion criteria and not the exclusion criteria

You may qualify if:

• GP, i.e., be a postgraduate medical doctor with a specialization in general practice.
• Work in office-based general practice in Denmark
• Have access to an ultrasound device in the practice during the study period

You may not qualify if:

• GPs with a possible conflict of interest (e.g., industry affiliation related to the use of ultrasound)
• No signed informed consent to participate.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Aalborg University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Center for General Practice at Aalborg University

Aalborg, 9220, Denmark

Location

Related Publications (1)

• Andersen CA, Lundbye-Christensen S, Riis A, Mehnert U, Lokkegaard T, Mengel-Jorgensen T, Rasmussen LD, Soll N, Stork B, Andersen SK, Pil L, Stjernebjerg C, Graumann O, Jensen MB. General practitioners' scanning competence following tailored ultrasound training: a hybrid effectiveness-implementation study. BMC Med Educ. 2025 May 20;25(1):733. doi: 10.1186/s12909-025-07356-8.

  PMID: 40394656 DERIVED

Study Officials

• Camilla A Andersen

  Aalborg University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: COHORT
• Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Assistant professor, MD, PhD

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: March 2, 2022
• First Posted: March 10, 2022
• Study Start: March 3, 2022
• Primary Completion: December 2, 2022
• Study Completion: December 2, 2022
• Last Updated: October 1, 2024

Record last verified: 2024-09

Locations

DK (1)