Self-assessment and learning motivation in emergency point-of-care ultrasound: an online pilot investigation in German physicians

Self-assessment and learning motivation in emergency point-of-care ultrasound: an online pilot investigation in German physicians

Learning motivation is essential to obtain and maintain ultrasound competencies in emergency medicine. One’s competencies herein and the need for ongoing training are best evaluated by self-assessment. This may be flawed by overconfidence effects - the belief to be better than others or better than tests reveal. This study aims to clarify the underinvestigated interaction of learning motivation and self-assessment in emergency point-of-care-ultrasound (POCUS).

Overall, the motivation to learn was high, while self-assessment showed no significant overconfidence in POCUS. The rate of correct diagnoses based on the loops was relatively low. As a result, we did not detect overconfidence effects in participants who completed questions (n = 86) and tests (n = 56). Overplacing oneself above peers negatively correlated with intrinsic learning motivation and identified regulation and positively correlated to amotivation. Further analyses indicated that learning motivation was associated with the interactions of the physicians’ risk perception, speciality, and self-assessment.

Joachim Bansbach, Michael Bentele, Matthias Bollinger, Stefanie Bentele, Ronny Langenhan, Bianka Gerber, Milena Trifunovic-Koenig & Stefan Bushuven

https://bmcemergmed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12873-024-01154-z

BMC Emergency Medicine

18 december 2024

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