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    "pk": 9337,
    "title": "Competency Assessment in Senior Emergency Medicine Residents for Core Ultrasound Skills",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Introduction:\n Quality resident education in point-of-care ultrasound (POC US) is becoming increasingly important in emergency medicine (EM); however, the best methods to evaluate competency in graduating residents has not been established. We sought to design and implement a rigorous assessment of image acquisition and interpretation in POC US in a cohort of graduating residents at our institution. \nMethods:\n We evaluated nine senior residents in both image acquisition and image interpretation for five core US skills (focused assessment with sonography for trauma (FAST), aorta, echocardiogram (ECHO), pelvic, central line placement). Image acquisition, using an observed clinical skills exam (OSCE) directed assessment with a standardized patient model. Image interpretation was measured with a multiple-choice exam including normal and pathologic images. \nResults:\n Residents performed well on image acquisition for core skills with an average score of 85.7% for core skills and 74% including advanced skills (ovaries, advanced ECHO, advanced aorta). Residents scored well but slightly lower on image interpretation with an average score of 76%. \nConclusion:\n Senior residents performed well on core POC US skills as evaluated with a rigorous assessment tool. This tool may be developed further for other EM programs to use for graduating resident evaluation.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY 4.0",
        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Ultrasound, Resident Education, Competency"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Educational Research and Practice",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5d48j72b",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Jessica",
            "middle_name": "N.",
            "last_name": "Schmidt",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Emergency Medicine, Madison, Wisconsin",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "John",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Kendall",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Denver Health Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver, Colorado",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Courtney",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Smalley",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Colorado School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver, Colorado",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2015-09-04T07:52:02-07:00",
    "date_accepted": "2015-09-04T07:52:02-07:00",
    "date_published": "2015-11-12T00:00:00-08:00",
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    ]
}