Cardiac Auscultation Skills of Physicians in Training
Abstract
To the Editor.
—I concur with Drs Mangione and Nieman1 that cardiac auscultation is a valuable clinical skill that merits added structured teaching for medical students and residents. While their method represents an improvement over the multiplechoice testing that is common to medical school and licensing examinations, identification of digitized cardiac sounds and murmurs is not a sufficient measure of clinical competency for physicians in training. Furthermore, the...