title: EKG arrhythmia recognition: a third-year clerkship teaching experience.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Palmetto Richland Family and Preventive Medicine Residency, University of South Carolina, USA. jamee.lucas@palmettohealth.org
authors.forename: Jamee
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lucas
authors.forename: Scott
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: McKay
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Baxley
mesh_terms: 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