At USC, medical students learn BP measurement taught all 4 years - American Medical Association

Seeing arsenic much than one-third of U.S. adults person hypertension—and little than fractional of them person it controlled to their humor unit goal—it’s funny that BP measurement often gets lone the briefest acquisition successful aesculapian school, and galore times that comes earlier the clerkship years. As a result, galore aesculapian students determination connected to residency with small to nary hands-on acquisition successful measuring BP, overmuch little getting close measurements.

The 2nd occurrence of a two-part webinar, “Advancing Student BP Measurement Training,” explores a task astatine Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) that has implemented BP measurement grooming and appraisal crossed each 4 years. Its centerpiece is the AMA’s “Student BP Measurement Essentials” e-learning series.

This task and the 5 others profiled successful the webinar were funded by grants from AMA Improving Health Outcomes.

“We tried to simulate the usage of each the modules longitudinally implicit time, truthful we did simultaneous implementation crossed our” undergraduate aesculapian acquisition continuum, said AMA subordinate Ron Ben-Ari, MD, subordinate dean for program and subordinate dean for continuing aesculapian acquisition astatine Keck School of Medicine of USC. Dr. Ben-Ari was the main researcher for the project, starring a squad that includes Win May, MD, PhD, Cha Chi Fung, PhD, Greg Harlan, MD, Alan Liu, MD, second-year aesculapian pupil Rachel Colbath, and Lillie Hudson, MSPA, MPH.

First- and second-year students completed the archetypal module, “BP Measurement Essentials: Student Edition," which covers everything from the value of close humor unit measurement and the existent modular connected to however to hole and presumption a diligent for BP measurements and however to execute BP measurements connected manual, semi-automated and automated bureau BP devices. It besides provides an overview of self-measured humor unit (SMBP).

Third-year students completed the 2nd module successful the series, "Self-Measured Blood Pressure Essentials: Student Edition," which covers however to spouse with patients to amended humor unit measurement astatine home.

Third- and fourth-year students past reviewed a briefer, summary mentation of the archetypal module’s learning objectives done a 3rd module, "BP Measurement Refresher: Student Edition."

“We have, of course, ever taught captious signs and emphasized learning astir humor unit measurement,” Dr. Ben-Ari said. “But we had ne'er had halfway curricular contented astir self-measured humor pressure, truthful this was caller to our curriculum.”

Dr. Ben-Ari and his colleagues had the third-year students implicit the SMBP module anterior to intersession and developed a standardized diligent (SP) brushwood for intersession utilizing a 15-step exemplary derived from the SMBP module to measure and springiness feedback to students connected counseling a diligent connected however to execute self-measured humor pressures. They besides attached a post-encounter workout utilizing the aforesaid 15-step exemplary into a required objective show exam conducted astatine the extremity of the 3rd year. The exemplary covers 4 domains: preparation, performance, signaling and pursuing up.

The intersession’s appraisal results showed important cognition transfer. Among the 186 students who completed the SP encounter, the mean people was 81% with a modular deviation of 12. The aforesaid students took a required objective show exam 3 to 4 months aft intersession and their mean people was 78% with a modular deviation of 14.

"There was rather precocious uptake of the accusation done the module,” Dr. Ben-Ari said, noting, however, that helium and his colleagues saw degradation successful show betwixt the intersession OSCE and the objective show exam. “We conscionable deliberation that supports that reinforcement of the cognition and skills is necessary.”

The “Student BP Measurement Essentials” e-learning bid is portion of the AMA Ed Hub^™, an online platform with high-quality CME and acquisition that supports the nonrecreational improvement needs of physicians and different wellness professionals. With topics applicable to you, it besides offers an easy, streamlined mode to find, take, way and study acquisition activities.

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