Practice and Exploration of Residents as Teachers for Small Lectures on Standardized Residency Training in Ultrasonic Medicine

Objective To explore the role of Residents as Teachers (RAT) in the standardized residency training in the department of ultrasound, and to provide a theoretical basis and feasible scheme for exploring a new model of small lectures.

Methods Twenty-seven ultrasonic residents from Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital were investigated by Tencent questionnaire. Mode A stands for "tutor teach and residents learn", mode B stands for "residents teach and tutor comment", mode C stands for "residents teach, senior residents' comment and tutor summarize", and eight items were set according to the post competency. SPSS 25.0 and R 4.3.1 software were used for statistical analysis and plotting.

Results 13 residents (48.2%) chose mode C, which was the most popular among the three teaching modes, 9 residents (33.3%) chose mode A and 5 residents (18.5%) chose mode B. Model C was more effective than model A and model B in cultivating independent thinking ability (P < 0.05); Mode C was more significant than mode A in improving the ability of self-learning, with statistical difference (P < 0.05). The three modes were not statistically significant in other respects. There was no statistically significant difference in the selection of all items between unreviewed and reviewed grades.

Conclusions The tutor's clinical lecture is indispensable. At the same time, the small lectures of RAT are also worth promoting and exploring, which can be used to train the teaching ability and improve the core competency of residents.