USIE 801 - Ultrasound Competency and Assessment

1 Credit Hours
This course will introduce students to the concepts of skills acquisition, measurement and assessment in UGME and GME education (Undergraduate and Graduate Medical Education). Students will look at the literature around how POCUS has influenced and been influenced by the prevailing literature on competency. Students will look at various curricula associated with medical ultrasound and how they differ in their approaches of assessing sonographic-skills, and sonographic knowledge of learners. It will look at how rubrics, feedback and OSCE’s (objectively structured clinical examinations) are utilized as tools of skills assessments in relationship to ultrasound program delivery.