Résumé
Objective: compare the quality of echocardiographic views of two groups of students based on their training method. Type of study: prospective, randomized, single-blind. Population: 5th year medical students undergoing an internship in the emergency department of Montpellier’s Teaching Hospital. Method: “traditional teaching” consisted in a video projection of a theoretical course followed by a workshop teaching basic echocardiographic views on a simulation mannequin. The teaching method tested, “tutoring”, consisted in theoretical training using the same video as in the traditional group, then carrying out at least one echocardiography on a patient with a tutor in the emergency department. The main endpoint was the quality of an echocardiography examination carried out on a healthy subject 2 to 4 weeks after the end of the internship and assessed using a grading grid. Results: 12 students were evaluated in the tutorial group and in the traditional group. We did not find any difference in the quality of views produced by students in the traditional and tutorial groups: respective median scores of 57.6/100 [53.6; 78.5] and 60.3/100 [52.2; 86.1], p=0.71. The students in the traditional group seemed to carry out more echocardiography examinations during their internship in the department but the other secondary endpoints did not show any difference. Conclusion: there does not seem to be any difference in the quality of basic echocardiographic views depending on whether students were trained by tutoring or by the traditional method.