Ultrasound Unit, Rheumatology Department , Sapienza Università di Roma , Rome , Italy.
Centre of Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Rigshospitalet-Glostrup , Copenhagen , Denmark.
RMD Open. 2015 Oct 6;1(1):e000139. doi: 10.1136/rmdopen-2015-000139. eCollection 2015.
To produce educational guidelines for the conduct, content and format of theoretical and practical teaching at EULAR musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSUS) Teaching the Teachers (TTT) Courses.
A Delphi-based procedure with 24 recommendations covering five main areas (Duration and place of the course; Faculty members; Content of the course; Evaluation of the teaching skills; TTT competency assessment) was distributed among a group of experts involved in MSUS teaching, in addition to an advisory educational expert being present. Consensus for each recommendation was considered achieved when the percentage of agreement was >75%.
21 of 24 invited participants responded to the first Delphi questionnaire (88% response rate). All 21 participants also responded to the second round. Agreement on 19 statements was obtained after two rounds.
This project has led to the development of guidelines for the conduct, content and format of teaching at the EULAR MSUS TTT Courses that are organised annually, with the aim of training future teachers of EULAR MSUS Courses, EULAR Endorsed MSUS Courses, as well as national and local MSUS Courses. The presented work gives indications on how to homogenise the teaching at the MSUS TTT Courses, thus resolving current discrepancies in the field.
制定 EULAR 肌肉骨骼超声（MSUS）教学师资培训（TTT）课程理论和实践教学的开展、内容和形式的教育指南。
采用基于德尔菲法的程序，共提出了 24 条建议，涵盖五个主要领域（课程的持续时间和地点；教师；课程内容；教学技能评估；TTT 能力评估），并分发给参与 MSUS 教学的专家组，此外还邀请了一位教育顾问。当同意率>75%时，认为每个建议都达成了共识。
24 名受邀参与者中有 21 名（88%的回复率）对第一轮德尔菲问卷做出了回应。21 名参与者也都对第二轮问卷做出了回应。经过两轮后，有 19 项声明达成了一致。
该项目制定了 EULAR 每年举办的 MSUS TTT 课程教学开展、内容和形式的指南，旨在培训未来的 EULAR MSUS 课程、EULAR 认可的 MSUS 课程以及国家和地方 MSUS 课程的教师。目前，该指南就如何统一 MSUS TTT 课程的教学提供了指导，从而解决了该领域目前存在的差异。
