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Psychomotor skills in medical ultrasound imaging: an analysis of the core skill set

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posted on 2014-08-01, 00:00 authored by D Nicholls, Linda SweetLinda Sweet, J Hyett
Sonographers use psychomotor skills to perform medical ultrasound examinations. Psychomotor skills describe voluntary movements of the limb, joints, and muscles in response to sensory stimuli and are regulated by the motor neural cortex in the brain. We define a psychomotor skill in relation to medical ultrasound imaging as "the unique mental and motor activities required to execute a manual task safely and efficiently for each clinical situation." Skills in clinical ultrasound practice may be open or closed; most skills used in medical ultrasound imaging are open. Open skills are both complex and multidimensional. Visuomotor and visuospatial psychomotor skills are central components of medical ultrasound imaging. Both types of skills rely on learners having a visual exemplar or standard of performance with which to reference their skill performance and evaluate anatomic structures. These are imperative instructional design principles when teaching psychomotor skills.

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Journal

Journal of ultrasound in medicine

Volume

33

Pagination

1349-1352

Location

Chichester, Eng.

ISSN

0278-4297

eISSN

1550-9613

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2016, the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine

Issue

8

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons

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