EKG arrhythmia recognition: a third-year clerkship teaching experience.
OBJECTIVE
This report describes a curricular experience designed to improve EKG arrhythmia recognition skills in third-year medical students in a required family medicine clerkship.


METHODS
An innovative 1-hour seminar that teaches a systematic approach to EKG arrhythmia recognition was added to the family medicine clerkship. Students were tested on ability to identify arrhythmias at the end of the clerkship. Scores were compared between the intervention group and a control group consisting of students in the year before the seminar was added.


RESULTS
Students who received the didactic session recognized more arrhythmias correctly.


CONCLUSIONS
This systematic approach to arrhythmia recognition improves the ability of third-year medical students to interpret EKGs.
Lucas
Jamee
J
Palmetto Richland Family and Preventive Medicine Residency, University of South Carolina, USA. jamee.lucas@palmettohealth.org
McKay
Scott
S
Baxley
Elizabeth
E
D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002982:Clinical Clerkship / Q000379:methods*; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003479:Curriculum; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005194:Family Practice / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D015397:Program Evaluation; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States