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CompletedNCT03738033Updated Apr 4, 2022

Mobile Education for Emergency Ultrasound

An observational study in Educational Problems, sponsored by National Taiwan University Hospital. Completed at 1 site in Taiwan. Open to participants aged 20 Years to 50 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2022-04-04.

Sponsored by National Taiwan University Hospital · Observational

Study type
Observational
Model
Case-control
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrollment
300
Ages
20 Years to 50 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

The investigators aim to investigate the feasibility of using mobile application platform for sonographic education.

Junior physicians at the National Taiwan University Hospital will be enrolled in this study. To design and develop a secure mobile application platform (consisting of mobile device and a cloud-based server) for interactive teaching, remote social-based consultation and discussion. The information exchange through the platform carries images and simulated cases.

This pioneer study can provide experience of mobile sonographic education and contribute to current medical education. Moreover, it can improve decision-making process and quality of care, and could lessen crowdedness at emergency departments. Furthermore, the integrated platform can be used in other educational programs in the future.

Read the detailed description

As usual, it takes time for junior emergency physicians to have good diagnostic accuracy through traditional sonographic education. Applying the technology built in this project, junior emergency physicians will be provided with intelligent learning programs anywhere and anytime.

Junior physicians at the National Taiwan University Hospital will be enrolled in this study.

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Conditions studied

  • Educational Problems

Keywords

  • emergency medicine ,emergency ultrasound
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In context

Lead sponsor

National Taiwan University Hospital is the lead sponsor of 2,609 studies on the registry; 574 are open to participants now.

Of its 11 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 2 (18%) have results posted.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
20 Years to 50 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No
Sampling method
Non-probability sample

Study population

The junior physicians of the department of emergency medicine of the National Taiwan University Hospital.

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Inclusion criteria

The junior physicians of the department of emergency medicine of the National Taiwan University Hospital.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria:

The junior physicians of the department of emergency medicine of the National Taiwan University Hospital, refused to enter the study.

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Study design

Observational model
Case-control
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrollment
300 participants (actual)

Groups and cohorts

  • use of the educational platform

    Before the hand-on practice and assessements, the participants use the platform for learning.

    Other: educational platform

  • without use of the educational platform

    Before the hand-on practice and assessements, the participants did not use the platform for learning.

Interventions

  • Othereducational platform

    The platform would be opened before they entered the study.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. assessment for ultrasound scanning

    use 5-point Likert scale (1 to 5 scores)

    Time frame: one week

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Study locations

1 site
  • National Taiwan University Hospital
    Taipei, Taiwan
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References and documents

Publications

  • Lien WC, Lin P, Chang CH, Wu MC, Wu CY. The effect of e-learning on point-of-care ultrasound education in novices. Med Educ Online. 2023 Dec;28(1):2152522. doi: 10.1080/10872981.2022.2152522. PubMed 36433837 ↗

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Apr 4, 2022, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03738033
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Nov 13, 2018
Start date
Apr 2015
Primary completion
Nov 2019
Completion
Nov 2019
Last update
Apr 4, 2022

Study contacts

Meng Che Wu, Dr
principal investigator · NTUH

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
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