Listen Before You Auscultate: An Active-Learning Approach to Bedside Cardiac Assessment: Appendix B. Pre-Class_Assignments

Introduction: Bedside cardiac assessment (BCA) is deficient across a spectrum of noncardiology trainees. Learners not taught BCA well may become instructors who do not teach well, creating a self-perpetuating problem. To improve BCA teaching and learning, we developed a high-quality, patient-centered curriculum for medicine clerkship students that could be flexibly implemented and accessible to other health professions learners. 

Discussion: The curriculum supported active learning of day-to-day clinical competencies and promoted professional identity formation alongside BCA ability. Feedback and increased confidence on the late-clerkship posttest suggested durable learning. We recommend approaches to confirm this and other elements of knowledge, skill acquisition, or behaviors and are surveying impacts on professional identity formation-related constructs.

Instructions

Course/Clerkship Directors: 

Review Listen Before You Auscultate curriculum overview brochure and video trailer.

Go to Listen Before You Auscultate: An Active-Learning Approach to Bedside Cardiac Assessment in MedEdPORTAL to read the publication.

"DOWNLOAD" the curriculum materials, called "Appendices," from the MedEdPORTAL website.

The curriculum materials include email templates to assign to learners a link so they can download Appendix B, the pre-class assignments. You can use this Zenodo link to the "Appendix B. Pre-Class_Assignments" file; or upload Appendix B to, and then share a link from, another file sharing service yourself.

Individual Health Professions Learners:

Welcome! “Appendix B. Pre-Class_Assignments,” this resource uploaded to Zenodo, is one component of a larger curriculum called "Listen Before You Auscultate: An Active-Learning Approach to Bedside Cardiac Assessment."  If Appendix B was assigned to you by your course director or if you would simply like to enrich your understanding of BCA, please do the following:

Watch the “Listen Before You Auscultate” video trailer. 

Go to Listen Before You Auscultate: An Active-Learning Approach to Bedside Cardiac Assessment to read the manuscript's abstract. This will provide context for your learning.

Download "Appendix B. Pre-Class_Assignments" (this resource) from Zenodo to a laptop or desktop computer. Click on Open_Pre-Class_Assignments_Here.html, which will take you to the assignments home page. The pre-class assignments are comprised of 13 short (3-5 minute) videos and practice questions. The entire exercise takes 90-120 minutes to complete.

Citation

Meisel JL, Chen DCR, Cohen GM, et al. Appendix B: pre-class assignments.  doi: 10.5281/zenodo.10674563. Component of Listen Before You Auscultate: An Active-learning Approach to Bedside Cardiac Assessment. MedEdPORTAL. 2023;19:11362. https://www.mededportal.org/doi/10.15766/mep_2374-8265.11362