Trial reportEuropean radiology2019
Simulator training improves ultrasound scanning performance on patients: a randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in European radiology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 28 papers.
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A Randomized Trial on the Effect of Simulation-based Diagnostic Abdominal Ultrasound Training
Effect of Motor-imagery in Simulator-based Training in Transurethral Resection of Bladder Tumors - a Randomized Trial
Who cites it
28 citing papers in PubMed.
- A serious video game for teaching basic point-of-care echocardiography skills: a non-inferiority trial.BMC medical education · 2026Trial
- Evaluating the effectiveness of high-fidelity simulation-based training on clinical skill transfer in obstetric ultrasound residents: a prospective randomized controlled trial.BMC medical education · 2026Trial
- Simulation training in mammography with AI-generated images: a multireader study.European radiology · 2025Trial
- Simulator training in focus assessed transthoracic echocardiography (FATE) for undergraduate medical students: results from the FateSim randomized controlled trial.BMC medical education · 2025Trial
- Impact of educational level on medical students' ability to learn abdominal point-of-care ultrasonography: a pilot study.BMC medical education · 2026Article
- Ultrasound Use in Anesthesiology and Intensive Care in the Nordic Countries-An International Survey on Availability, Frequency of Use, Operator Training, and Assessment.Acta anaesthesiologica Scandinavica · 2026Article
- Education and training models for point-of-care ultrasound in perioperative medicine: a narrative review.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Review
- Reflecting realities: gauging the pulse of simulator-based training in medical minds-resonance of simulator-based ultrasound training in medical education.BMC medical education · 2025Article
- Application of ultrasound simulation training in intensive care nursing teaching.BMC medical education · 2025Article
- Competency-based ultrasound curriculum for standardized training resident: a pre- and post-training evaluation.BMC medical education · 2024Article
- Teaching Medical Students Rapid Ultrasound for shock and hypotension (RUSH): learning outcomes and clinical performance in a proof-of-concept study.BMC medical education · 2024Observational
- Concordance between MITS and conventional autopsies for pathological and virological diagnoses.International journal of legal medicine · 2024Article
- Simulation-based assessment of upper abdominal ultrasound skills.BMC medical education · 2024Article
- The European Respiratory Society led training programme improves self-reported competency and increases the use of thoracic ultrasound.Breathe (Sheffield, England) · 2023Review
- Can virtual-reality simulation ensure transthoracic echocardiography skills before trainees examine patients?International journal of medical education · 2022Article
- Improving the quality of breast ultrasound examination performed by inexperienced ultrasound doctors with synchronous tele-ultrasound: a prospective, parallel controlled trial.Ultrasonography (Seoul, Korea) · 2022Article
- Training neural networks on domain randomized simulations for ultrasonic inspection.Open research Europe · 2022Article
- Ultrasound in legal medicine-a missed opportunity or simply too late? A narrative review of ultrasonic applications in forensic contexts.International journal of legal medicine · 2021Review
- Evaluation of competence in ultrasound-guided procedures-a generic assessment tool developed through the Delphi method.European radiology · 2021Article
- Learning ultrasound rendering from cross-sectional model slices for simulated training.International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundSimulation-based mastery training may improve clinical performance. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of simulation-based mastery training on clinical performance in abdominal diagnostic ultrasound for radiology residents.
methodThis study was a multicenter randomized controlled trial registered at clinicaltrials.gov (identifier: NCT02921867) and reported using the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) statement. Twenty radiology residents from 10 different hospitals were included in the study. Participants were randomized into two groups: (1) simulator-based training until passing a validated test scored by a blinded reviewer or (2) no intervention prior to standard clinical ultrasound training on patients. All scans performed during the first 6 weeks of clinical ultrasound training were scored. The primary outcome was performance scores assessed using Objective Structured Assessment of Ultrasound Skills (OSAUS). An exponential learning curve was fitted for the OSAUS score for the two groups using non-linear regression with random variation. Confidence intervals were calculated based on the variation between individual learning curves.
resultsAfter randomization, eleven residents completed the simulation intervention and nine received standard clinical training. The simulation group participants attended two to seven training sessions using between 6 and 17 h of simulation-based training. The performance score for the simulation group was significantly higher for the first 29 scans compared to that for the non-simulation group, such that scores reached approximately the same level after 49 and 77 scans, respectively.
conclusionWe showed improved performance in diagnostic ultrasound scanning on patients after simulation-based mastery learning for radiology residents.
trial registrationNCT02921867 KEY POINTS: • Improvement in scanning performance on patients is seen after simulation-based mastery learning in diagnostic abdominal ultrasound. • Simulation-based mastery learning can prevent patients from bearing the burden of the initial steep part of trainees' learning curve.
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