Liam P Blything, Juhani Järvikivi, Abigail G Toth, Anja Arnhold
The Influence of Focus Marking on Pronoun Resolution in Dialogue Context
Frontiers in psychology
determine impact longitudinal nearpeer dedicated ecg didactic curriculum internal medicine resident ability accurately interpret ecgs study employs prospective cohort design internal medicine residents university buffalo participated monthly ecg didactic sessions 7month period residents invited complete pre postcurriculum questionnaires responses anonymous participation voluntary data collected included basic demographics career interest exposure clinical cardiology number sessions attended residents asked interpret sixteen unique ecgs divided evenly among eight common rhythms questionnaires pre postcurriculum cohorts compared using ttests chisquare analyses associations attendance comfort level interpretation number correct interpretations analyzed using pearson correlations multivariate linear regression determined strongest predictor number correct ecg interpretations postcurriculum cohort correctly interpreted significantly greater percentage ecgs compared precurriculum cohort 745 vs 609 p 001 didactic attendance significantly associated comfort level interpreting ecgs r 328 p 018 trended towards increased number correct interpretations r 248 p 077 residents attended three sessions demonstrated increased ecg interpretation skills compared attended two fewer sessions 800 vs 711 p 048 number clinical cardiology rotations attended significantly associated correct interpretations r 310 p 001 strongest predictor accurately interpreting ecgs 029 p 037 participation longitudinal nearpeer ecg didactic curriculum improved resident ability interpret ecgs curriculum contains didactic sessions clinical exposure may offer greatest benefit improving ecg interpretation skills