The cardiac auscultation proficiency in residents before and after training / 中华全科医师杂志

The study is designed to investigate the progress in cardiac auscultation proficiency of residents after training program.Thirty eight residents were selected to test their ability of cardiac auscultation.There were 13 cardiac events(or murmurs)in 15 patients,and the auscultation proficiency was expressed as the percentage of recognizing cardiac events accurately.The results showed that the highest auscultation proficiency was whole systolic and diastolic murmurs(up to 79 percent and 61 percent respectively)before training.The percentage of recognizing continuous murmurs,click,mitral stenosis and regurgitation,aortic stenosis increased significantly after training program(P＜0.05).