{"pk":16186,"title":"Educational Assessment of Medical Student Rotation in Emergency Ultrasound","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Background: Medical student ultrasound education is sparse. In 2002, we began the first medical student rotation in emergency ultrasound. Objective: To evaluate if medical students can learn and retain sonographic skills during a two- or four-week elective. Methods: We gave students an exam on the first and last days of the rotation. Six months later, students took the exam a third time. A control group was used for comparison. Results: Over a 19-month period, we enrolled 45 students (25 on the two-week and 20 on the four-week elective). The four-week student post-test score was significantly better than the two- week posttest score (81% vs. 72%, p=0.003). On the six-month exam, the four-week student post-test score was significantly better than the two-week post-test score (77% vs 69%, p=0.008). The control group did not statistically improve. Conclusion: Medical students can learn bedside ultrasound interpretation with clinical integration and retain the knowledge six months later.","language":"en","license":{"name":"none","short_name":"none","text":"","url":"http://google.com"},"keywords":[{"word":"ultrasound"},{"word":"medical student"},{"word":"education"},{"word":"Assessment"},{"word":"Emergency Meedicine"}],"section":"Article","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6k99630p","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"J","middle_name":"Christian","last_name":"Fox","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Irvine","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Seric","middle_name":"","last_name":"Cusick","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Irvine","department":"None"},{"first_name":"William","middle_name":"","last_name":"Scruggs","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Irvine","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Travis","middle_name":"W","last_name":"Henson","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Irvine","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Craig","middle_name":"L","last_name":"Anderson","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Irvine","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Graciela","middle_name":"","last_name":"Barajas","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Irvine","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Alexander","middle_name":"","last_name":"Zlidenny","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Irvine","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Mark","middle_name":"I","last_name":"Langdorf","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Irvine","department":"None"},{"first_name":"JoAnne","middle_name":"","last_name":"McDonough","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Irvine","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2007-05-08T07:00:00Z","date_accepted":"2007-05-08T07:00:00Z","date_published":"2007-08-01T07:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16186/galley/8117/download/"}]}