Doctors Flub Lub-Dub Proficiency Test - CME Teaching Brief - MedPage Today
STANFORD, Calif., March 28 - When it comes to proficiency in a clinical cardiac exam, residents, faculty members, and private practitioners all matched up about equally well with third-year medical students, showed investigators here.
The finding suggests that better cardiac exam training is necessary not only for medical students but for the faculty members who teach them, said Jasminka M. Vukanovic-Criley, M.D., of Stanford and colleagues.
"Cardiac examination skills do not improve after the third year of medical school and may decline after years in practice, which has important implications for medical decision making, patient safety, cost-effective care, and continuing medical education," they reported in the March 27 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.
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