Rajendram Rajkumar, Alrasheed Abdullah Olayan, Boqaeid Abdulaziz Ahmed, Alkharashi Faris Khalid, Qasim Salman Sufian, Hussain Arif
Medical Protocol Department, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard - Health Affairs, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The Research Unit, Department of Medical Education, College of Medicine, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
BMC Med Educ. 2024 Dec 21;24(1):1513. doi: 10.1186/s12909-024-06501-z.
Recent international consensus statements advocate for the integration of Point-of-Care Ultrasound (PoCUS) into the global undergraduate medical curriculum. Some medical schools outside Saudi Arabia have already incorporated PoCUS into their undergraduate curricula to enhance anatomy, physiology and pathology instruction. However, there are no data on the potential role of PoCUS in the preclinical training of medical students in Saudi Arabia. Given constraints on resources for medical education, a formal needs assessment was conducted to evaluate the potential utility of PoCUS within the basic science curriculum at our institution.
All final year medical students at our institution were invited to complete a validated online survey. The questionnaire utilized a 5-point Likert scale to assess student perceptions of the potential for PoCUS to improve their understanding of basic sciences and their desire for its incorporation into the preclinical curriculum.
A total of 229 students participated (response rate 76%; male 134/200; female 95/100). Our survey demonstrated good internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha: learning basic sciences 0.81, need for curriculum integration 0.83). The vast agreed that learning PoCUS would enhance their understanding of anatomy (95%) and pathology (75%). While only 52% agreed that learning PoCUS would improve their understanding of physiology, a substantial majority (80%) agreed that all medical schools should incorporate PoCUS into their undergraduate curricula. Furthermore, 62% agreed that offering PoCUS training would make the medical school more attractive to prospective applicants. No significant differences were observed between the responses of male and female students. The results of a confirmatory factor analysis provide strong support for the hypothesized three-factor model. All factor loadings are significant (P < 0.001), CONCLUSIONS: Medical students in Saudi Arabia perceive that PoCUS would be a valuable tool to learn anatomy and pathology, aligning with the recommendations of the consensus conference on PoCUS integration in undergraduate medical education organized by the World Interactive Network Focused on Critical Ultrasound (WINFOCUS) and the Society of Ultrasound in Medical Education (SUSME). Introducing PoCUS training into preclinical medical curricula may also enhance the attractiveness of medical schools to potential applicants.
最近的国际共识声明主张将床旁超声（PoCUS）纳入全球本科医学课程。沙特阿拉伯以外的一些医学院校已经将PoCUS纳入其本科课程，以加强解剖学、生理学和病理学教学。然而，关于PoCUS在沙特阿拉伯医学生临床前培训中的潜在作用尚无数据。鉴于医学教育资源的限制，我们进行了一项正式的需求评估，以评估PoCUS在我校基础科学课程中的潜在效用。
我校所有医学专业最后一年的学生受邀完成一项经过验证的在线调查。问卷采用5点李克特量表，以评估学生对PoCUS改善其对基础科学理解的潜力的看法，以及他们对将其纳入临床前课程的渴望。
共有229名学生参与（回复率76%；男性134/200；女性95/100）。我们的调查显示出良好的内部一致性（克朗巴哈系数：学习基础科学0.81，课程整合需求0.83）。绝大多数人同意学习PoCUS会增强他们对解剖学（95%）和病理学（75%）的理解。虽然只有52%的人同意学习PoCUS会改善他们对生理学的理解，但绝大多数人（80%）同意所有医学院校都应将PoCUS纳入其本科课程。此外，62%的人同意提供PoCUS培训将使医学院对未来的申请者更具吸引力。在男女生的回复之间未观察到显著差异。验证性因素分析的结果为假设的三因素模型提供了有力支持。所有因素负荷均显著（P < 0.001）。
沙特阿拉伯的医学生认为PoCUS将是学习解剖学和病理学的宝贵工具，这与世界聚焦于重症超声的互动网络（WINFOCUS）和医学超声教育协会（SUSME）组织的关于PoCUS融入本科医学教育的共识会议的建议一致。将PoCUS培训引入医学临床前课程也可能提高医学院对潜在申请者的吸引力。
