| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,110,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Cardiac auscultation is one of the most important physical-examination skills, providing useful information to diagnose patients with a variety of heart diseases. Although high-fidelity medical simulator is a useful tool for health professions learners to acquire a variety of skills, effectiveness of simulation-based education in cardiac auscultation training is still controversial. We investigated whether a single auscultation training class using a cardiology patient simulator for medical students provides competence for clinical clerkship. We found that the single cardiac auscultation training class using a cardiology patient simulator alone may not provide competence necessary for clinical clerkship. Employment of echocardiography in the training did not enhance the proficiency of the students in cardiac auscultation. These results suggest that repetition of the training and the initiation of the training in the earlier stage of undergraduate education are required.
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