Objective
Comprehensive educational initiatives in ultrasound for practicing physicians are
lacking. We developed a perioperative ultrasound training program for faculty to offer
a broad orientation to the principles and clinical applications of ultrasound.
Design and Setting
The program consisted of two phases. Phase one, which introduced ultrasound via didactic
and hands-on components, had six live sessions. At the end of each, participants completed
a knowledge quiz. During the sixth session, faculty participated in an objective structured
clinical examination (OSCE). For phase two, faculty attended two to three sessions
(8-10 hours each) of in-depth individualized training and demonstrated supervised
performance of ultrasound-related procedures of their choice.
Participants
Participants included Anesthesia faculty at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Measurements and Main Results
On average 30 faculty members attended each live session for phase one; 12 completed
phase two. There was a significant difference in quiz scores across the six sessions
(p < 0.001) with scores for Session 6 being significantly higher than for Session
1 (p < 0.001). The average mean and median scores on the three OSCE stations were
95.63% and 98.33%, respectively. For phase two, the 8 participants who received training
in regional anesthesia each performed > 10 blocks on patients over two days; 5 of
the 7 participants who received training in transthoracic echocardiography each completed
more than 15 examinations on simulators and 10 examinations on patients.
Conclusion
It is possible to implement a departmental educational program for ultrasound to improve
ultrasound knowledge and skills in practicing anesthesiologists.
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Published online: January 09, 2019
Footnotes
This study was funded by the Foundation for Anesthesia Research and Education as part of a grant awarded to R. Matyal.
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