[nylug-talk] [Discuss] Medical Students Improve Listening w/iPods (fwd)

[Jay Sulzberger]

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  Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:45:48 -0400
  From: Trina Semorile <tqs1757 at nyu.edu>
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  Subject: [Discuss] Medical Students Improve Listening w/iPods

  Medical students improve their listening skills using their iPods

  ...After demonstrating last year that medical students greatly
  improved their stethoscope skills by listening repeatedly to heart
  sounds on their iPods, lead investigator Michael Barrett, M.D.,
  clinical associate professor of medicine and cardiologist at Temple
  University School of Medicine and Hospital, set out to test the
  technique on practicing physicians.

  During a single 90-minute session, 149 general internists listened
  400 times to five common heart murmurs including aortic stenosis,
  aortic regurgitation, mitral stenosis, mitral regurgitation and
  innocent systolic murmur. Previous studies have found the average
  rate of correct heart sound identification in physicians is 40
  percent. After the session, the average improved to 80 percent.


  Proficiency with a stethoscope--and the ability to recognize abnormal
  heart sounds--is a critical skill for identifying dangerous heart
  conditions and minimizing dependence on expensive medical tests.

  Full article at:
  http://scienceblogs.com/purepedantry/2007/03/medical_students_improve_
  their.php


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