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  • Emergency Medicine
  • Medical Education
  • Diagnostic Ultrasound

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  • Goal-directed ultrasound (GDU) protocols enhance efficiency and patient care.
  • Hands-on training workshops improve ultrasound skill acquisition.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To describe a novel algorithm-focused education workshop for undifferentiated chest pain.
  • To enhance emergency medicine resident training in ultrasound milestone competencies.

Main Methods:

  • A cross-sectional study at an academic medical center.
  • Developed and implemented a novel GDU algorithm for undifferentiated chest pain.
  • Integrated the algorithm into a 1-day workshop (asynchronous, didactic, case-based, hands-on).

Main Results:

  • 95% of residents participated in the objective standardized clinical exam.
  • Knowledge-based question performance improved with postgraduate year (PGY) level.
  • PGY-1 residents showed higher application of the novel algorithm.

Conclusions:

  • The 1-day algorithm-based ultrasound workshop was an engaging learning technique.
  • This educational approach effectively trained residents in GDU for chest pain evaluation.