TY - JOUR
T1 - Education Indicators for Internal Medicine Point-of-Care Ultrasound
T2 - a Consensus Report from the Canadian Internal Medicine Ultrasound (CIMUS) Group
AU - On behalf of the Canadian Internal Medicine Ultrasound (CIMUS) Group
AU - Ambasta, Anshula
AU - Balan, Marko
AU - Mayette, Michael
AU - Goffi, Alberto
AU - Mulvagh, Sharon
AU - Buchanan, Brian
AU - Montague, Steven
AU - Ruzycki, Shannon
AU - Ma, Irene W.Y.
AU - Blouw, Marcus
AU - Card, Sharon E.
AU - Chan, Barry
AU - Desy, Janeve
AU - Demchuk, Gabriel
AU - Gebhardt, Colin R.
AU - Halman, Samantha
AU - Kerr, Brendan
AU - Ma, Irene W.Y.
AU - Martin, Leslie
AU - Montague, Steven J.
AU - Ringrose, Jennifer
AU - Schaefer, Jeffrey P.
AU - Yu, Jeffrey
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, The Author(s).
PY - 2019/10/1
Y1 - 2019/10/1
N2 - Background: Curriculum development and implementation for internal medicine point-of-care ultrasound (IM POCUS) continues to be a challenge for many residency training programs. Education indicators may provide a useful framework to support curriculum development and implementation efforts across programs in order to achieve a consistent high-quality educational experience. Objective: This study seeks to establish consensus-based recommendations for education indicators for IM POCUS training programs in Canada. Design: This consensus study uses a modified nominal group technique for voting in the initial round, followed by two additional rounds of online voting, with consensus defined as agreement by at least 80% of the participants. Participants: Participants were 22 leaders with POCUS and/or education expertise from 13 Canadian internal medicine residency programs across 7 provinces. Main Measures: Education indicators considered were those that related to aspects of the POCUS educational system, could be presented by a single statistical measure, were readily understood, could be reliably measured to provide a benchmark for measuring change, and represented a policy issue. We excluded a priori indicators with low feasibility, are impractical, or assess learner reactions. Candidate indicators were drafted by two academic internists with post-graduate training in POCUS and medical education. These indicators were reviewed by two internists with training in quality improvement prior to presentation to the expert participants. Key Results: Of the 52 candidate education indicators considered, 6 reached consensus in the first round, 12 in the second, and 4 in the third round. Only 5 indicators reached consensus to be excluded; the remaining indicators did not reach consensus. Conclusions: The Canadian Internal Medicine Ultrasound (CIMUS) group recommends 22 education indicators be used to guide and monitor internal medicine POCUS curriculum development efforts in Canada.
AB - Background: Curriculum development and implementation for internal medicine point-of-care ultrasound (IM POCUS) continues to be a challenge for many residency training programs. Education indicators may provide a useful framework to support curriculum development and implementation efforts across programs in order to achieve a consistent high-quality educational experience. Objective: This study seeks to establish consensus-based recommendations for education indicators for IM POCUS training programs in Canada. Design: This consensus study uses a modified nominal group technique for voting in the initial round, followed by two additional rounds of online voting, with consensus defined as agreement by at least 80% of the participants. Participants: Participants were 22 leaders with POCUS and/or education expertise from 13 Canadian internal medicine residency programs across 7 provinces. Main Measures: Education indicators considered were those that related to aspects of the POCUS educational system, could be presented by a single statistical measure, were readily understood, could be reliably measured to provide a benchmark for measuring change, and represented a policy issue. We excluded a priori indicators with low feasibility, are impractical, or assess learner reactions. Candidate indicators were drafted by two academic internists with post-graduate training in POCUS and medical education. These indicators were reviewed by two internists with training in quality improvement prior to presentation to the expert participants. Key Results: Of the 52 candidate education indicators considered, 6 reached consensus in the first round, 12 in the second, and 4 in the third round. Only 5 indicators reached consensus to be excluded; the remaining indicators did not reach consensus. Conclusions: The Canadian Internal Medicine Ultrasound (CIMUS) group recommends 22 education indicators be used to guide and monitor internal medicine POCUS curriculum development efforts in Canada.
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U2 - 10.1007/s11606-019-05124-1
DO - 10.1007/s11606-019-05124-1
M3 - Article
C2 - 31240603
AN - SCOPUS:85068372925
SN - 0884-8734
VL - 34
SP - 2123
EP - 2129
JO - Journal of General Internal Medicine
JF - Journal of General Internal Medicine
IS - 10
ER -