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Record W4389430643 · doi:10.22374/cjmrp.v22i2.14

Results from a Piloted Point of Care Ultrasound Course for Ontario Primary Maternity Care Providers / Résultats d’un cours pilote sur l’échographie au point de service Cours sur l’échographie à l’intention des fournisseurs de soins primaires de maternité de l’Ontario

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Bronte K. Johnston, Elizabeth Darling, Anne Malott, Laura Thomas, Beth Murray‐Davis

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Journal of Midwifery Research and Practice · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicUltrasound in Clinical Applications
Canadian institutionsMcMaster UniversityUniversity of British Columbia
FundersMcMaster University
KeywordsPracticumCurriculumLikert scaleMedicineMedical educationData collectionPsychological interventionPresentation (obstetrics)NursingPsychologyObstetricsPedagogy

Abstract

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Introduction: In 2018, the College of Midwives of Ontario approved a regulation granting midwives with appropriate training to incorporate point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) into their practice. A POCUS course for practicing midwives included online modules, a two-day workshop, and a clinical practicum. This study evaluates the curriculum in this novel course. Methods: We conducted a mixed-methods study underpinned by the Kirkpatrick Framework for evaluating educational interventions. Data collection included surveys and interviews. Surveys included Likert scale questions and open-ended responses. Semi-structured interviews allowed participants to expand on their surveys. Data analysis included descriptive statistics and grounded theory analysis, respectively. Results: Course participants described that they could learn the required knowledge and demonstrate competency to perform obstetrical POCUS scans. The online modules provided the necessary didactic content and sonography clinical skills that were further developed and refined in the workshop and practicum. Due to barriers like COVID-19, many learners could not complete the clinical practicum training. Participants who did complete the practicum, post-course follow-up results indicated they have started to incorporate POCUS into their clinical practice regularly, particularly for confirmation of fetal presentation and viability of the pregnancy. Conclusion: Midwives who participated in this novel POCUS training course acquired and applied their ultrasound knowledge and skills to their clinical work and found POCUS to help inform clinical decisions. Barriers to implementing this skill in practice included difficulty arranging clinical practicums and the cost of obtaining and maintaining ultrasound equipment. RÉSUMÉIntroduction: En 2018, l’Ordre des sages-femmes de l’Ontario a approuvé un règlement permettant aux sages-femmes adéquatement formées la possibilité d’inclure dans leur pratique l’échographie au point d’intervention (EPI). Le cours d’EPI destiné aux sages-femmes en exercice comprend des modules en ligne, un atelier de deux jours et un stage clinique. La présente étude évalue le curriculum de ce cours original. Méthodes: Nous avons réalisé une étude à méthodes mixtes sous-tendue par le cadre Kirkpatrick d’évaluation des interventions pédagogiques. Des sondages et des entrevues ont servi à la collecte des données. Les sondages comportaient des questions à échelle de Likert et des questions ouvertes. Des entrevues semistructurées ont permis aux participantes d’étoffer leurs réponses aux sondages. Pour l’analyse des données, nous avons recouru à des statistiques descriptives et à une analyse de théorie ancrée. Résultats: Les participantes au cours ont indiqué qu’elles ont pu acquérir les compétences exigées et démontrer leurs compétences en échographie obstétricale au point d’intervention. Les modules en ligne ont fourni le contenu didactique et les compétences cliniques en échographie qui ont été développées davantage et peaufinées lors de l’atelier et du stage. En raison d’obstacles comme la COVID-19, de nombreuses apprenantes n’ont pu effectuer le stage clinique. Selon les résultats du suivi post-cours, les participantes qui ont accompli le stage ont commencé à intégrer régulièrement l’EPI dans leur pratique clinique, en particulier pour confirmer la présentation fœtale et la viabilité de la grossesse. Conclusion: Les sages-femmes qui ont pris part à ce cours original de formation en EPI ont appliqué les connaissances et les compétences acquises à leur travail clinique et ont trouvé l’EPI utile pour éclairer les décisions cliniques. Parmi les obstacles à la mise en pratique de cette compétence, mentionnons la difficulté d’organiser des stages cliniques et les coûts associés à l’acquisition et à l’entretien du matériel d’échographie.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.008
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.020
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.740
Threshold uncertainty score0.516

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0080.020
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.094
GPT teacher head0.364
Teacher spread0.270 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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