EVALUATION ON ECG TRAINING PROGRAM FOR INTERNS AND POSTGRADUATES
Journal Title: Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 4
Abstract
BACKGROUND The electrocardiography is a basic and commonly used diagnostic test, which is really expected to know by the resident doctors and also by interns. There is no structured teaching methods for this. So, we intended to evaluate the ability of residents to interpret ECG. MATERIALS AND METHODS A hospital-based uncontrolled educational interventional study done includes 22 interns and 11 PG residents with total of 33 students from Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College, Pudhucherry, were enrolled in our study. A pre-test consisting of 33 ECG samples were associated with a questionnaire. This study was conducted under the supervision of a cardiologist and internal medicine specialist who supervised the ECG selection, answers and scoring of each ECG. RESULTS There were 33 participants included in the study, among them majority (66.7%) were interns and remaining were PGs (33.3%) and most of their pre-test knowledge was from self-study (51.5%). In this study, 66.9% of them told this training was useful and 30% told very useful. According to paired ‘t’ test when compared pre- and post-test assessment, there was significant improvement from 22% to 60% (p > 0 .05) in reading the ECG and diagnose the emergency conditions. CONCLUSION According to this study, the educational programs on electrocardiography may improve resident’s correct diagnostic rate and also may be able to identify treating in the emergency conditions. Focused educational programs in the problem areas may further reduce the error rate in diagnosing such conditions.
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Suresh K, Badrinath A. K, Mridula Eswarawaha
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