Prospective evaluation of cardiac ultrasound performance by general internal medicine physicians during a 6-month faculty development curriculum

The Ultrasound Journal

Table 2 Focused cardiac ultrasound image quality scores for general internal medicine (GIM) faculty and cardiology fellows

	Maximum score	GIM faculty	Cardiology fellows	p value
Parasternal long	12	8.7 (0.7)	9.6 (0.9)	0.50
Parasternal short	18	11.0 (0.9)	14.5 (1.3)	0.04
Apical	10	6.0 (0.8)	8.1 (1.0)	0.04
Subcostal long	8	4.2 (1.3)	5.2 (1.4)	0.46
Subcostal IVC	6	2.5 (1.0)	3.6 (1.0)	0.03
Diagnostic quality	12	8.6 (1.0)	9.5 (1.2)	0.52
Total	66	40.8^a (5.0)	50.6 (6.0)	0.04

Data reported as model-adjusted means (SE) combining the three assessment sessions. Comparisons reported using adjusted p value
GIM general internal medicine faculty, SE standard error
^aModel adjusted mean reported, so total does not equal sum of individual sub-sections