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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