Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Completed
Study Type: Interventional
Official Title: Self-Directed Study Using MP3 Players Versus Multimedia Lecture to Improve Auscultation Proficiency of Physicians: A Randomized, Controlled Trial.
Brief Summary: Our objective was to test two educational interventions for teaching cardiac auscultation: self-directed learning using portable audio files versus a single, massed multimedia lecture intervention similar to current best practice, to determine which would most effectively increase recognition of common cardiac sounds by physicians. The investigators hypothesized that doctors learning on their own time could better improve their skills.