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

[Jay Sulzberger]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Jay Sulzberger wrote:

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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
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> Medical students improve their listening skills using their iPods
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> ...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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Full article at:
> http://scienceblogs.com/purepedantry/2007/03/medical_students_improve_
> their.php
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oo--JS.