title: Teaching medical students diagnostic sonography.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of this pilot project was to train medical students in sonography.
  
  
  METHODS
  Thirty-three medical students participated in a pilot sonography course, which included exposure to ultrasound physics, knobology of a compact ultrasound scanner, training in scanning and anatomy of the aorta and right kidney, and reading assignments in these areas. Pretraining and posttraining examinations were given in these areas to analyze the degree of knowledge gained by these methods.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Nearly all of the medical students increased their basic knowledge of sonography and improved their scanning skills. The improvement was statistically significant in all areas.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Training in sonography for medical students could be used as a foundation for later, more specialty-specific training to improve the overall medical sonography skills for all physicians.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 3400 Spruce St, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. peter.arger@uphs.upenn.edu
authors.forename: Peter H
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Arger
authors.forename: Susan M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Schultz
authors.forename: Chandra M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Sehgal
authors.forename: Theodore W
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Cary
authors.forename: Judith
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Aronchick
mesh_terms: D001011:Aorta / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D004501:Education, Medical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008297:Male; D010414:Pennsylvania; D010808:Physical Examination; D010865:Pilot Projects; D014463:Ultrasonography / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods