Journal article
Do you hear what you see? Utilizing phonocardiography to enhance proficiency in cardiac auscultation
Abstract
IntroductionCardiac auscultation skills have proven difficult to train and maintain. The authors investigated whether using phonocardiograms as visual adjuncts to audio cases improved first-year medical students’ cardiac auscultation performance.MethodsThe authors randomized 135 first-year medical students using an email referral link in 2018 and 2019 to train using audio-only cases (audio group) or audio with phonocardiogram tracings (combined …
Authors
Watsjold B; Ilgen J; Monteiro S; Sibbald M; Goldberger ZD; Thompson WR; Norman G
Journal
Perspectives on Medical Education, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 148–154
Publisher
Ubiquity Press
Publication Date
June 2021
DOI
10.1007/s40037-020-00646-5
ISSN
1389-6555