UltraCon: Can standardized training improve eFAST learning?

AUSTIN, TX -- A standardized training curricula can be well-received by emergency faculty who are learning extended focused assessment with sonography in trauma (eFAST), a study presented at UltraCon found. In her presentation, Jacqueline Gomberg, MD, from NYU Langone Health/Bellevue in New York showed that emergency medical staff expressed more positive attitudes toward performing eFAST exams after participating in training that takes less than two hours to attend. “Our eFAST course was really well received,” Gomberg said. “Everyone … said that the session was very helpful and that it was likely to change their clinical practice, which is ultimately our goal in the end.” eFAST exams are widely used in emergency medicine and trauma, with ultrasound training being implemented into residency education. However, Gomberg said that there are current faculty who have never received ultrasound training. She added that there is a lack of standardization in such training, with “very few” official curricula for practicing emergency medicine faculty to build their expertise in this area.Jacqueline Gomberg, MD, from NYU Langone Health/Bellevue in New York discusses her team's faculty training course for extended focused assessment with sonography in trauma (eFAST).Amerigo Allegretto Gomberg and colleagues addressed this issue by developing their own eFAST faculty development course, coordinated by an emergency medicine ultrasound division team within an inner-city hospi...
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