Effectiveness of a multi-model teaching strategy to train emergency medicine residents to use point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) for assessment of shock.

OBJECTIVE

To evaluate the effectiveness and feasibility of a multimodal teaching method to train emergency residents to use point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in the assessment of shock.

METHODS

The study subjects were Emergency Medicine residents at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine between January 2023 and December 2023. These residents volunteered for the study and were randomly divided into either the teaching reform (TR) group or the traditional teaching (TT) group. The assessment outcomes of the study included the residents' scores on theoretical tests and practical tests and the residents' satisfaction with and evaluation of the teaching method.

RESULTS

A total of 100 residents participated in this study in either the TR or TT groups. Compared with the TT group, the TR group achieved higher scores on both the theoretical test and the practical assessment (p < 0.05). Similarly, analysis of the questionnaire indicated that the TR group was more satisfied with their training and evaluated it higher than the TT group (p < 0.05).

CONCLUSION

Integrating point-of-care ultrasound with a multimodal teaching method in standardized training for emergency medicine residents could effectively improve the teaching effect and quality, which may provide important value in the emergency teaching of residents.