Seeing Is Believing: Evaluating a Point-of-Care Ultrasound Curriculum for 1st-Year Medical Students

Teaching and Learning in Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 85-92

  Nelson, Bret P ^a   Hojsak, Joanne ^a   Dei Rossi, Elizabeth ^a   Karani, Reena ^a   Narula, Jagat ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

curriculum; Medical education; physical examination; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; CURRICULUM; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING; LEARNING; MACHINE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; MODEL; PERCEPTION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICS; THORAX; UNIVERSITY; EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; POINT OF CARE SYSTEM; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE;

EDUCATION, MEDICAL; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FACULTY, MEDICAL; HUMANS; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84969287150     PISSN: 10401334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10401334.2016.1172012     Document Type: Article

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