Mobile Education for Emergency Ultrasound

National Taiwan University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Educational Problems

Treatments: Other: educational platform

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03738033

201412004RIND

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators aim to investigate the feasibility of using mobile application platform for sonographic education.

Junior physicians at the National Taiwan University Hospital will be enrolled in this study. To design and develop a secure mobile application platform (consisting of mobile device and a cloud-based server) for interactive teaching, remote social-based consultation and discussion. The information exchange through the platform carries images and simulated cases.

This pioneer study can provide experience of mobile sonographic education and contribute to current medical education. Moreover, it can improve decision-making process and quality of care, and could lessen crowdedness at emergency departments. Furthermore, the integrated platform can be used in other educational programs in the future.

Full description

As usual, it takes time for junior emergency physicians to have good diagnostic accuracy through traditional sonographic education. Applying the technology built in this project, junior emergency physicians will be provided with intelligent learning programs anywhere and anytime.

Junior physicians at the National Taiwan University Hospital will be enrolled in this study.

Enrollment: 300 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 50 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

The junior physicians of the department of emergency medicine of the National Taiwan University Hospital.

Exclusion criteria

The junior physicians of the department of emergency medicine of the National Taiwan University Hospital, refused to enter the study.

Trial design

300 participants in 2 patient groups

use of the educational platform

Description:

Before the hand-on practice and assessements, the participants use the platform for learning.

Treatment:

Other: educational platform

without use of the educational platform

Description:

Before the hand-on practice and assessements, the participants did not use the platform for learning.