Table 2.
Internal medicine residents’ perceptions regarding the applicability of lung US to their clinical practice and self-reported knowledge of lung ultrasound
| Response (Likert scale) | Indication for diagnostic lung ultrasound (n) |
Knowledge (N) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Effusion | Pneumothorax | Consolidation | Interstitial Syndrome | Basic US | Lung US | |
| Very poor | 1 | 13 | 23 | 27 | 34 | 66 |
| Poor | 2 | 13 | 10 | 18 | 28 | 16 |
| Fair | 16 | 22 | 28 | 22 | 27 | 10 |
| Good | 28 | 22 | 13 | 7 | 8 | 6 |
| Very good | 53 | 30 | 26 | 26 | 3 | 2 |
| Total | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
Internal medicine residents’ perceptions regarding the applicability of lung US to their clinical practice and self-reported knowledge of lung US. This table presents internal medicine residents’ perceptions on applicability of diagnostic lung US to their clinical practice and their self-reported knowledge of lung US. Data are presented as frequency, N: Number of responses, PSY: Postgraduate year, US: Ultrasound