Limited intervention improves technical skill in focus assessed transthoracic echocardiography among novice examiners
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Limited intervention improves technical skill in focus assessed transthoracic echocardiography among novice examiners
BACKGROUND Previous studies addressing teaching and learning in point-of-care ultrasound have primarily focussed on image interpretation and not on the technical quality of the images. We hypothesized that a limited intervention of 10 supervised examinations would improve the technical skills in Focus Assessed Transthoracic Echocardiography (FATE) and that physicians with no experience in FATE ...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Medical Education
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1472-6920
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6920-12-65