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Comparison of Web- Versus Classroom-based Basic Ultrasound and Extended Focused Assessment With Sonography for Trauma (EFAST) Training in Two European Hospitals

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Mass General Brigham

Status

Completed

Conditions

Learning

Treatments

Other: Didactic training in basic ultrasound and the EFAST

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01040767
2008-P-002019/1

Details and patient eligibility

About

Study Objective: Training physicians in new skills via classroom-based teaching has inherent costs and time constraints. We sought to evaluate whether web-based didactics result in similar knowledge improvement and retention of basic ultrasound principles and the EFAST (Extended Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma) compared with the traditional method.

Methods: Physicians from two German emergency departments were randomized into a classroom group with traditional lectures and a web group that watched narrated lectures online. All participants completed a pre- and post-test, and a second post-test eight weeks later. Both groups underwent hands-on training after the first post-test. A control group completed the two initial tests without didactic intervention.

Enrollment

55 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Physicians currently practicing in a German emergency department
  • Age ≥ 18 years

Exclusion criteria

  • Inability to participate in all aspects of the study prior to study begin
  • Control group: Subjects who did not complete the pre-test

Trial design

55 participants in 3 patient groups

Class
Active Comparator group
Treatment:
Other: Didactic training in basic ultrasound and the EFAST
Web
Active Comparator group
Treatment:
Other: Didactic training in basic ultrasound and the EFAST
Control
No Intervention group

Trial contacts and locations

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