Beyond Bones: Assessing Whether Ultrasound‐Aided Instruction and Practice Improve Unassisted Soft Tissue Palpation Skills of First‐Year Medical Students

Abstract

Time and practice viewing soft tissue structures with US assistance seems to have a "palpation-with-eyes" effect that improves students' abilities to correctly locate, palpate, and identify limb-specific soft tissue structures once the US assistance is removed.