Pia Tohme, Nour Abi Fadel, Nour Yaktine, Rudy Abi-Habib
Predictors of Mental Health Literacy in a Sample of Health Care Major Students: Pilot Evaluation Study
JMIR formative research
audience type curriculum hybrid asynchronous curriculum designed prehospital clinician colleagues including limited emergency medical technicians emt advanced emts aemt emtparamedics emtp critical care emtps ccemtp critical care transport nurses cctn certified flight registered nurses cfrn learn practice ultrasound fundamentals setting standardized extended focused assessment sonography trauma efast exam fivemonth curriculum learners perform pretest review online module lectures attend ultrasound scanning workshop perform posttest examinations extendedfocused assessment sonography trauma efast exam identify intrathoracic intraabdominal free fluid well pneumothoraces efast ultrasound exam previously taught clinicians various backgrounds healthcare including emergency medical service ems however openaccess systemized curriculum teaching efast exams ems clinicians published end training activities prehospital ems learners able demonstrate foundational ultrasound skills scanning interpretation artifact recognition identifying pertinent organs anatomically relevant structures efast examination learners differentiate normal pathologic efast ultrasound images identifying presence free fluid lung sliding learners also explain clinical significance application detecting free fluid efast scan educational strategies used curriculum include hybrid asynchronous curriculum encompassing 25 hours lectures derived online learning modules inperson review addition learners attend 2 hours handson proctored ultrasound scanning practicing efast examinations online 13question pretest administered prior study online posttest inperson scanning osces administered least eight weeks scheduled workshop consisting online 13question multiplechoice posttest confidence survey handson efast objectively structured clinical exam osce session nonparametric wilcoxon signedrank test performed pretest posttest metric examine statistical differences paired data posttest scores demonstrated statistically significant improvement image interpretation exams ultrasound selfefficacy pretest mean pretest posttest scores 5546 721 199 8423 1089 159 correct 13 questions respectively p 00001 participants surveyed increase selfefficacy reflected likert scale ultrasound usage image interpretation p 0005 average posttest osce efast exam score 3789 276 42 points 9021 45hour hybrid asynchronous model demonstrates effective curriculum teaching efast ultrasound prehospital clinicians ultrasound sonography prehospital clinicians emergency medical services ems paramedics critical care transport extended focused assessment sonography trauma efast free fluid sliding lung sign elective pain