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A 5-hour theoretical and practical basic echocardiography training followed by 10 supervised scans enabled junior doctors to perform satisfactorily and increased their confidence.
The provided text is a collection of meeting abstracts from a critical care ultrasound congress, and no results are reported for the primary title regarding echocardiography training for junior doctors.
May support brief echo training for junior competence; leaves open validation of retention and outcomes in prospective trials.
In bedside ultrasound teaching, it has been generally accepted that Focused Assessment with Sonography in Trauma (FAST) is well received by medical students and junior doctors. However there is no evidence to date on the training of bedside basic echocardiography among junior doctors. As echocardiography is a quick and non-invasive diagnostic tool in the emergency department, the inclusion of this into junior doctors training should be a logical step. This study aims to demonstrate the feasibility of training basic echocardiography among junior doctors.
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Noor et al. (2012) studied Lack of basic echocardiography training. Basic echocardiography training vs. Pre-training baseline was evaluated on Performance in objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) and self-reported confidence. A 5-hour theoretical and practical basic echocardiography training followed by 10 supervised scans enabled junior doctors to perform satisfactorily and increased their confidence.
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