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Record W4407695684 · doi:10.36834/cmej.80273

Integration of Point of Care Ultrasound into an existing undergraduate medicine anatomy course

2025· article· en· W4407695684 on OpenAlexaffvenueabout
G Sheppard, Jenny Harris, Caitlin Hutchings, H Wadman-Scanlan, Peter Collins

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Medical Education Journal · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicUltrasound in Clinical Applications
Canadian institutionsUniversity of OttawaMemorial University of Newfoundland
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCourse (navigation)Point of care ultrasoundPoint (geometry)AnatomyComputer scienceMedical physicsMedical educationMedicineUltrasoundRadiologyEngineeringMathematicsGeometry

Abstract

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Ultrasonography has become a valuable procedural guide and diagnostic tool across many medical specialties. A 2017 descriptive cross-sectional survey at Memorial University of Newfoundland found that there was support to integrate preclinical and clinical applications of point of care ultrasound (POCUS) into the undergraduate medical anatomy curriculum. Unlike previous studies that have focused on scanning a single body system, our group utilized a station-based model that allowed medical students to scan several different body systems throughout the year. Our experience in creating the syllabus, collecting feedback, and creating multiple choice assessment questions will be useful to other educators who may wish to integrate POCUS into their curriculum.

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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)0.005
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 score0.011
Threshold uncertainty score0.038

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.020
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0090.002

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 head0.023
GPT teacher head0.408
Teacher spread0.384 · 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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