Parker P C, Harrison G
Ultrasound Department, Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, Hull Royal Infirmary, Hull, UK.
Division of Midwifery and Radiography, School of Health Sciences, City University London, UK.
Ultrasound. 2015 Nov;23(4):231-41. doi: 10.1177/1742271X15605344. Epub 2015 Sep 29.
The British Medical Ultrasound Society (BMUS), the Consortium for the Accreditation of Sonographic Education (CASE), education providers and the NHS are working together to review how best to develop education for the future sonographic workforce. There is currently a national vacancy rate of approximately 12% across NHS Trusts. Education course placements are often limited to the number of clinical training places available within departments, resulting in a disparity between vacancies and the numbers of qualified sonographers graduating. Clearly there is a need for education to match the service demand. A term often used as a solution to the workforce problem is 'direct entry' ultrasound education. Anecdotally this term has caused confusion amongst health care professionals and as such the aim of this work was to gain an understanding of the views and opinions of BMUS members and interested professionals about direct entry training and subsequent development of any future training programmes. BMUS undertook an online survey with 286 responses. The survey provided insight into the opinions of ultrasound practitioners and the complexities of developing a relevant educational programme for the future sonographer workforce. The results suggested a number of concerns with direct entry ultrasound programmes, including insufficient training places, lack of health care background knowledge, lack of imaging knowledge and no state registration specific to sonographers. Benefits of direct entry to ultrasound training were perceived to be increasing the number of sonographers trained each year, whilst training people in their first choice profession with skills developed specific to the sonographer role. Support for direct entry ultrasound training was limited to 51% of respondents who would advocate this form of ultrasound training if it led to qualified sonographers with the same skills as sonographers exiting from current CASE accredited programmes.
英国医学超声学会（BMUS）、超声检查教育认证联盟（CASE）、教育机构和国民保健服务体系（NHS）正在共同努力，探讨如何以最佳方式为未来的超声检查从业人员开展教育。目前，NHS各信托机构的全国空缺率约为12%。教育课程实习机会往往受限于各部门现有的临床培训岗位数量，导致岗位空缺与合格超声检查医师毕业人数之间存在差距。显然，教育需要与服务需求相匹配。一个常被用作解决劳动力问题的方案的术语是“直接入学”超声教育。据传，这个术语在医疗保健专业人员中引起了困惑，因此，这项工作的目的是了解BMUS成员和相关专业人员对直接入学培训以及未来任何培训计划后续发展的看法和意见。BMUS开展了一项在线调查，共收到286份回复。该调查深入了解了超声检查从业人员的意见以及为未来超声检查从业人员制定相关教育计划的复杂性。结果显示，人们对直接入学超声课程存在一些担忧，包括培训岗位不足、缺乏医疗保健背景知识、缺乏成像知识以及没有针对超声检查医师的国家注册。直接进入超声培训的好处被认为是每年增加接受培训的超声检查医师数量，同时让人们在其首选职业中接受培训，并培养出与超声检查医师角色相关的特定技能。只有51%的受访者支持直接入学超声培训，如果这种培训能培养出与当前CASE认证课程毕业的超声检查医师技能相同的合格超声检查医师，他们会倡导这种超声培训形式。
