Undergraduate teaching in ultrasound to medical students

Purpose: Assessing and training ultrasound to undergraduate students of 3 rd year medical assigned to Valme Hospital, University of Sevilla. Materials and methods: Descriptive study developed in February, March and April of 2012 by 48 medical students from 3 rd year who studied the subject of Medical Pathology. They were divided into groups of 8, and each group was taught a Theoretical and practical 4-hour workshop, the contents was the protocol Focused Assessment With Sonography in Trauma (FAST) for detecting abdominal free-flowing liquid. The workshop was led by two emergency physicians with extensive training…