First Year Medical Students, Personal Handheld Ultrasound Devices, and Introduction of Insonation in Medical Education

• Main Authors: Mollie Ireson (Author), Simrit Warring (Author), Jose R. Medina-Inojosa (Author), Maria T. O'malley (Author), Wojciech Pawlina (Author), Nirusha Lachman (Author), Jagat Narula (Author), Anjali Bhagra (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Ubiquity Press, 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Ultrasound education has been provided to students in medical schools within and beyond the United States. A formal experiment with use of personal handheld ultrasound equipment by all first-year medical students has not been reported. Employing insonation (an application of ultrasound)...