NCT04834700

Comparison of Hands-on Versus Online Learning About Ocular Ultrasound

Comparison of Hands-on Versus Online Learning in Teaching Ultrasound Skills for Eye

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 32 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Samsung Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 50 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

In patients who visit an emergency room with ocular symptoms, point-of-care ultrasound can quickly identify several emergency diseases. While training of eye ultrasound skills is useful for emergency physicians, hands-on education is risky in pandemic situation such as coronavirus disease 19 (COVID19). As a solution to this, non-face-to-face education via online has been on the rise. The investigators hypothesized that even an online education is enough to perform basic eye ultrasound by emergency physician.

Detailed description

Since the eye is an superficial organ, it has excellent access to ultrasound. Also, the eye has a liquid-filled structure (vitreous body), it is suitable for obtaining some important findings with bedside ultrasound. In patients who visit an emergency room with ocular symptoms, point-of-care ultrasound can quickly identify several emergency diseases. While training of eye ultrasound skills is useful for emergency physicians, hands-on education is risky in pandemic situation such as COVID19. As a solution to this, non-face-to-face education via online has been on the rise. The investigators hypothesized that even an online education is enough to perform basic eye ultrasound by emergency physician.

Conditions

• Emergencies

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	online group	In terms of teaching ultrasound, video lectures will be conducted rather than hands-on, which is the traditional method.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-12-17
• Primary completion: 2021-04-01
• Completion: 2021-10-01
• First posted: 2021-04-08
• Last updated: 2021-06-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: South Korea