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A 1-Week Intensive Ultrasound Course for Second-Year Medical Students

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We describe the curriculum of a 1-week ultrasound course for second-year medical students integrating didactics, bedside scanning, high-fidelity simulators, and a “Sonolympics” and evaluate its effectiveness. All students’ subjective confidence in using and interpreting ultrasound significantly increased, and students obtained and correctly interpreted ultrasound images in 86% of simulated cases.

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to acknowledge the contributions of the staff and facilities of the Office of Interprofessional Simulation at the University of Alabama-at Birmingham, without whom this study and course could not have been completed, as well as the residents of the UAB Emergency Medicine Residency for their contributions in bedside teaching and Sonolympics.

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  1. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital, Old Hillman Building Suite 251, 619 19th St S, Birmingham, AL, 35249, USA

    Samuel L. Burleson, Maxwell A. Thompson, David C. Pigott, John P. Gullett, John Donnelly & Courtney B. Gibson

  2. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California-Irvine Hospital, Orange, USA

    Maxwell A. Thompson

  3. Department of Cell, Developmental, and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, USA

    David Resuehr

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Correspondence to Samuel L. Burleson.

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Burleson, S.L., Thompson, M.A., Pigott, D.C. et al. A 1-Week Intensive Ultrasound Course for Second-Year Medical Students. Med.Sci.Educ. 28, 465–467 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40670-018-0576-8

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