Kardos Attila, Schaupp Ramona, Kettner Lillian, Becher Harald
Department of Cardiology, Milton Keynes University Hospital, 8H Standing Way, Eaglestone, Milton Keynes MK6 5LD, UK.
School of Sciences and Medicine, University of Buckingham, Buckingham, UK.
Eur Heart J Digit Health. 2021 Jan 20;2(1):179-183. doi: 10.1093/ehjdh/ztab004. eCollection 2021 Mar.
WHY?: To improve stress echocardiography interpretation standards, we introduced a structured 5-day interpretation course in 2017. In order to deliver the course during the world-wide pandemic, we transformed the existing boardroom style, workstation-based, interactive course into a cloud-based digital entity maintaining the same features.
HOW?: On completion of 6 lectures via live webinars, 15 participants performed, fully GDPR compliant, 80 recorded case analysis using a web-based reporting system over the course of 5 days. After self-reporting and generating preliminary reports the joint case review with the faculty, resulted in finalization of the reports and provided individual feedback for the participants. By the 5th day, participants had collected 80 reports for their e-logbook and were ready to sit the digital interpretation exam.
Eighty-eight percent of participants passed the e-exam and received a certificate of completion with 15 re-accreditation and 30 CPD points by the British Society of Echocardiography and Federation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians, UK, respectively. The feedback by the participants was praising the pre-course provision of lectures and digital aids, the conduct of the course by the faculty and the technical support with an average score of 4.7 for each, on a scale from 1 to 5.
Our experience proved that interactive, multi-day; hands-on reporting course can be delivered using the digital platform. Online interpretation courses have great potential to improve the competency of imaging specialists. This digital teaching model could be suitable in other imaging-based training courses like cardiac CT and MRI.
为提高应力超声心动图解读标准，我们于2017年推出了为期5天的结构化解读课程。为了在全球大流行期间开展该课程，我们将现有的基于会议室、工作站的交互式课程转变为具有相同功能的基于云的数字课程。
通过实时网络研讨会完成6次讲座后，15名参与者在5天的时间里使用基于网络的报告系统进行了80次符合通用数据保护条例（GDPR）的病例分析记录。在自我报告并生成初步报告后，与教员进行联合病例审查，最终确定报告并为参与者提供个人反馈。到第5天，参与者已为其电子日志收集了80份报告，并准备好参加数字解读考试。
88%的参与者通过了电子考试，并分别获得了英国超声心动图学会和英国皇家内科医师学院联合会颁发的结业证书，可重新获得认证并获得30个继续医学教育（CPD）学分。参与者的反馈称赞了课前提供的讲座和数字辅助工具、教员的课程安排以及技术支持，每项的平均评分为4.7分（满分5分）。
我们的经验证明，交互式、多日的实践报告课程可以通过数字平台进行。在线解读课程在提高影像专家能力方面具有巨大潜力。这种数字教学模式可能适用于其他基于影像的培训课程，如心脏CT和MRI。
