Cook Amy E, Inkpen Peter
Department of Medicine, Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Department of Medicine, Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Arch Rehabil Res Clin Transl. 2021 Mar;3(1):100098. doi: 10.1016/j.arrct.2020.100098. Epub 2020 Dec 17.
Point of care ultrasound is important to the specialty of physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R) to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of a variety of neuromusculoskeletal conditions commonly seen in practice. However, across Canada, resident education of sonoanatomy skills is variable. There remain no standards in terms of how ultrasound is taught as part of the residency curriculum as set by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. As such, residents are often required to find their own educational opportunities. This report describes an alternative approach to learning these skills that was inspired by disruption due to coronavirus disease 2019 in first year residency. This report explores how a PM&R resident was able to develop valuable ultrasound skills from home using not only textbooks and videos, but also new and novel teleguidance technology, namely an ultrasound probe that connects to a clinician's own smart devices to display images.
床旁超声对于物理医学与康复（PM&R）专业很重要，有助于诊断和治疗实践中常见的各种神经肌肉骨骼疾病。然而，在加拿大各地，住院医师超声解剖技能的教育情况参差不齐。加拿大皇家内科医师和外科医师学院制定的住院医师课程中，关于如何教授超声检查尚无标准。因此，住院医师常常需要自己寻找教育机会。本报告描述了一种学习这些技能的替代方法，该方法受到2019年冠状病毒病导致的第一年住院医师培训中断的启发。本报告探讨了一名PM&R住院医师如何在家中不仅利用教科书和视频，还利用新型远程指导技术，即一种可连接临床医生自己的智能设备以显示图像的超声探头，来培养有价值的超声技能。
