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Effect of motor imagery and actual practice on learning professional medical skills
Nady Hoyek
Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1
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ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1093-0263
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Background The peripheral venous catheter (PVC) is the most frequently used medical device in hospital care to administer intravenous treatment or to take blood samples by introducing a catheter into a vein. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of motor imagery (MI) associated with actual training on the learning of PVC insertion into a simulated venous system.
Method: This is a prospective monocentre study in 3rd year medical students. Forty medical students were randomly assigned to the experimental group (n = 20) performing both real practice and MI of PVC insertion or to the control group (n = 20) trained through real practice only. We also recruited a reference group of 20 professional nurses defining the benchmark for a target performance.
Results The experimental group learned the PVC insertion faster than the control group in the first learning phase (p < 0.001), reaching the expected reference level after 4 sessions (p = .87) whereas the control group needed 5 sessions to reach the same level (p = .88). Both groups were at the same level at the end of the scheduled training.
Conclusions MI may thus improve professional motor skills learning, and therefore limit the time needed to reach the expected level. Therefore, MI may strengthen technical medical skill learning.
Keywords
motor imagery, motor learning, professional medical skills
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Effect of motor imagery and actual practice on learning professional medical skills
Nady Hoyek
Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1
Corresponding Author
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1093-0263
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On 18 Jan, 2021
No community comments so far
Editorial decision: Major revision
On 10 May, 2020
Review #1 received
Received 03 May, 2020
Review #2 received
Received 03 May, 2020
Review #3 received
Received 03 May, 2020
Reviewer #3 agreed
On 27 Apr, 2020
Reviewer #2 agreed
On 25 Apr, 2020
Reviewers invited
Invitations sent on 24 Apr, 2020
Reviewer #1 agreed
On 24 Apr, 2020
Editor assigned
On 13 Apr, 2020
Submission checks complete
On 12 Apr, 2020
Editor invited
On 12 Apr, 2020
First submitted
On 10 Apr, 2020
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Subject Areas
Cognitive Neuroscience
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This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License. Read Full License
View the published version at BMC Medical Education.
Background The peripheral venous catheter (PVC) is the most frequently used medical device in hospital care to administer intravenous treatment or to take blood samples by introducing a catheter into a vein. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of motor imagery (MI) associated with actual training on the learning of PVC insertion into a simulated venous system.
Method: This is a prospective monocentre study in 3rd year medical students. Forty medical students were randomly assigned to the experimental group (n = 20) performing both real practice and MI of PVC insertion or to the control group (n = 20) trained through real practice only. We also recruited a reference group of 20 professional nurses defining the benchmark for a target performance.
Results The experimental group learned the PVC insertion faster than the control group in the first learning phase (p < 0.001), reaching the expected reference level after 4 sessions (p = .87) whereas the control group needed 5 sessions to reach the same level (p = .88). Both groups were at the same level at the end of the scheduled training.
Conclusions MI may thus improve professional motor skills learning, and therefore limit the time needed to reach the expected level. Therefore, MI may strengthen technical medical skill learning.
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