Listen Before You Auscultate: An Active-Learning Approach to Bedside Cardiac Assessment

Meisel JL, Chen DCR, Cohen GM, et al. Listen before you auscultate: an active-learning approach to bedside cardiac assessment. MedEdPORTAL. 2023;19:11362. https://www.mededportal.org/doi/10.15766/mep_2374-8265.11362

Copyright © 2023 Meisel et al. This is an open-access publication distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license.

Introduction

Bedside cardiac assessment (BCA) is deficient across a spectrum of noncardiology trainees. Learners not taught BCA well may become instructors who do not teach well, creating a self-perpetuating problem. To improve BCA teaching and learning, we developed a high-quality, patient-centered curriculum for medicine clerkship students that could be flexibly implemented and accessible to other health professions learners.

Discussion

The curriculum supported active learning of day-to-day clinical competencies and promoted professional identity formation alongside BCA ability. Feedback and increased confidence on the late-clerkship posttest suggested durable learning. We recommend approaches to confirm this and other elements of knowledge, skill acquisition, or behaviors and are surveying impacts on professional identity formation-related constructs.

Instructions

Course/Clerkship Directors

1. Review Listen Before You Auscultate curriculum overview brochure and video trailer.
2. Go to Listen Before You Auscultate: An Active-Learning Approach to Bedside Cardiac Assessment to read the publication.
3. "DOWNLOAD" the curriculum materials (called "Appendices" in MedEdPORTAL) to desk/laptop from https://tinyurl.com/TeachBCA or from the MedEdPORTAL site.
4. The curriculum materials include email templates to assign to learners a link to download Appendix B, the pre-class assignments. You can use a Zenodo.org link to the "Appendix B. Pre-Class_Assignments" file; or upload Appendix B to, and then share a link from, another file sharing service yourself.

Individual Health Professions Learners

Welcome! “Appendix B. Pre-Class_Assignments,” is one component of a larger curriculum called "Listen Before You Auscultate: An Active-Learning Approach to Bedside Cardiac Assessment." If Appendix B was assigned to you by your course director or if you would like to enrich your understanding of BCA, please do the following:

1. Watch the “Listen Before You Auscultate” video trailer.
2. Go to Listen Before You Auscultate: An Active-Learning Approach to Bedside Cardiac Assessment to read the manuscript's abstract. This will provide context for your learning.
3. Download "Appendix B. Pre-Class_Assignments" from Zenodo.org to a laptop or desktop computer. Click on Open_Pre-Class_Assignments_Here.html, which will take you to the pre-class assignments home page. The pre-class assignments are comprised of 13 short (3-5 minute) videos and practice questions. The entire exercise takes 90-120 minutes to complete.