A Pilot Study of the Impact of Three-Dimensional Stereoscopic Models of Pelvic Anatomy on Short- and Long-Term Retention in First-Year Medical Students

Purpose: Voice ambulatory biofeedback (VAB) has potential to improve carryover of therapeutic voice use into daily life. Previous work in vocally healthy participants demonstrated that motor learning inspired variations to VAB produced expected differences in acquisition and retention of modified daily voice use. This proof-of-concept study was designed to evaluate whether these VAB variations have the same desired effects on acquisition and retention in patients with phonotraumatic vocal hyperfunction (PVH). Method: Seventeen female patients with PVH wore an ambulatory voice monitor for 6 days: three baseline days, one biofeedback day, one short-term retention day, and one long-term retention day. Short- and long-term retention were 1- and 7-days postbiofeedback, respectively. Patients were block-randomized to receive one of three types of VAB: 100%, 25%, and Summary. Performance was measured in terms of adherence time below a subject-specific vocal intensity threshold. Results: All three types of VAB produced a biofeedback effect with 13 out of 17 patients displaying an increase in adherence time compared to baseline days. Additionally, multiple patients from each VAB group increased their adherence time during short- and/or long-term retention monitoring compared to baseline. Conclusions: These findings show that VAB can be associated with acquisition and retention of desired voice use in patients with PVH. Specifically, all three feedback types improved multiple patients' performance and retention for up to 1 week after biofeedback removal. Future work can investigate the impact of incorporating VAB into voice therapy.

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Efficacy of implementing intermittent STOP THE BLEED® reviews on long term retention of hemorrhage control skills of first year medical students

Journal of Osteopathic Medicine ◽

10.1515/jom-2020-0231 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 0 (0) ◽

Author(s):

Enkhtsogt Sainbayar ◽

Nathan Holt ◽

Amber Jacobson ◽

Shalini Bhatia ◽

Christina Weaver

Keyword(s):

Medical Students ◽

Intervention Group ◽

Training Session ◽

Likert Scale ◽

Control Group ◽

First Year ◽

Hemorrhage Control ◽

Term Retention ◽

Long Term Retention

Abstract Context Some medical schools integrate STOP THE BLEED® training into their curricula to teach students how to identify and stop life threatening bleeds; these classes that are taught as single day didactic and hands-on training sessions without posttraining reviews. To improve retention and confidence in hemorrhage control, additional review opportunities are necessary. Objectives To investigate whether intermittent STOP THE BLEED® reviews were effective for long term retention of hemorrhage control skills and improving perceived confidence. Methods First year osteopathic medical students were asked to complete an eight item survey (five Likert scale and three quiz format questions) before (pretraining) and after (posttraining) completing a STOP THE BLEED® training session. After the surveys were collected, students were randomly assigned to one of two study groups. Over a 12 week intervention period, each group watched a 4 min STOP THE BLEED® review video (intervention group) or a “distractor” video (control group) at 4 week intervals. After the 12 weeks, the students were asked to complete an 11 item survey. Results Scores on the posttraining survey were higher than the pretraining survey. The median score on the five Likert scale items was 23 points for the posttraining survey and 14 points for the pretraining survey. Two of the three knowledge based quiz format questions significantly improved from pretraining to posttraining (both p<0.001). On the 11 item postintervention survey, both groups performed similarly on the three quiz questions (all p>0.18), but the intervention group had much higher scores on the Likert scale items than the control group regarding their confidence in their ability to identify and control bleeding (intervention group median = 21.4 points vs. control group median = 16.8 points). Conclusions Intermittent review videos for STOP THE BLEED® training improved medical students’ confidence in their hemorrhage control skills, but the videos did not improve their ability to correctly answer quiz-format questions compared with the control group.

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Long-term Retention of Smoking Cessation Counseling Skills Learned in the First Year of Medical School

Journal of General Internal Medicine ◽

10.1007/s11606-007-0255-8 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 22 (8) ◽

pp. 1161-1165 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Lynn Y. Kosowicz ◽

Carol A. Pfeiffer ◽

Maximilian Vargas

Keyword(s):

Smoking Cessation ◽

Medical School ◽

First Year ◽

Counseling Skills ◽

Smoking Cessation Counseling ◽

Term Retention ◽

Long Term Retention

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How the Amount and Spacing of Retrieval Practice Affect the Short- and Long-Term Retention of Mathematics Knowledge

Educational Psychology Review ◽

10.1007/s10648-019-09489-x ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 32 (1) ◽

pp. 277-295 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Keith B. Lyle ◽

Campbell R. Bego ◽

Robin F. Hopkins ◽

Jeffrey L. Hieb ◽

Patricia A. S. Ralston

Keyword(s):

Retrieval Practice ◽

Term Retention ◽

Mathematics Knowledge ◽

Short And Long Term ◽

Long Term Retention

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Long-term retention and detection of oxytetracycline marks applied to hatchery-reared larval striped bass, Morone saxatilis

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences ◽

10.1139/f97-280 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 55 (3) ◽

pp. 539-543 ◽

Cited By ~ 19

Author(s):

Thomas R Reinert ◽

Julie Wallin ◽

Mary C Griffin ◽

Michael J Conroy ◽

Michael J Van Den Avyle

Keyword(s):

Striped Bass ◽

Retention Rate ◽

Morone Saxatilis ◽

First Year ◽

Detectable Change ◽

Savannah River ◽

Term Retention ◽

Long Term Retention ◽

Coded Wire Tags

Hatchery-reared larval striped bass, Morone saxatilis, destined for stocking in the Savannah River, Georgia, were immersed in oxytetracycline (OTC) to mark bony structures for later identification. Approximately 170 000 of these fish were raised to larger sizes and tagged with micromagnetic coded-wire tags (CWT). Recaptures of OTC-marked (OTC only) and marked and tagged (OTC and CWT) fish allowed us to determine retention of the OTC mark in otoliths to 3 years of age and to evaluate reader ability to detect those marks. The estimated retention rate was 80.2% for the first year, with no detectable change in additional years. Detection of OTC was age independent and estimated at 72.6% when one otolith was examined versus 92.5% when both otoliths were examined. Only 74.2% (retention x detection) of recaptures in this study would have been correctly identified as stocked fish if OTC alone was used as the marking method.

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