{"doi":"10.1007/s40670-025-02414-8","title":"Unlocking Musculoskeletal Anatomy: Enhancing Second-Year Medical Students’ Knowledge Recall and Self-Efficacy with a Physician-Led Ultrasound Session","abstract":"Abstract Introduction The purpose of this study was to determine whether exposure to musculoskeletal (MSK) ultrasound (US) enhanced medical students’ knowledge and self-efficacy in understanding basic US principles, MSK anatomy and physical examination, and use of US to evaluate MSK structures. Materials and Methods Forty-three second-year medical students were divided into control ( n = 22) and experimental ( n = 21) groups. All participants completed a pre-session self-efficacy questionnaire and were encouraged to view a recorded 20-min MSK US lecture. All participants then attended a physician-led 35-min MSK US hands-on scanning session covering the shoulder and knee. The control group took a multiple-choice assessment before the session, while the experimental group took the same assessment after the session. All participants completed a post-session self-efficacy questionnaire. After the session, the physician instructors attended a 30-min Zoom focus group. Results Participants’ self-efficacy in understanding basic US principles, knee and shoulder anatomy, physical examination, and sonoanatomy significantly improved after the MSK US session (all p < 0.01). Participants who took the content assessment after the MSK US session outperformed participants who took the assessment before the MSK US session ( p = 0.02). Qualitative open-ended question responses from students and instructor focus group discussion detailed strengths and shortcomings and proposed actionable improvements for future iterations of the MSK US curriculum. Conclusion When implemented at a point in the preclinical curriculum where US experience was previously absent, a single, focused physician-led 35-min US session covering the shoulder and knee is an effective adjunct educational tool for preclinical medical students to reinforce US basics, MSK anatomy and physical examination and improve self-efficacy in MSK US scanning.","journal":"Medical Science Educator","year":2025,"id":552842,"datarank":0.10397207708399181,"base_score":0.6931471805599453,"endowment":0.6931471805599453,"self_citation_contribution":0.10397207708399181,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.10397207708399181,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":1,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.8027,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2025-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":522132,"name":"Abdus Sattar","orcid":"0000-0003-3863-3113","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1208981,"name":"Qian Wu","orcid":"0000-0002-3550-7923","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1449168,"name":"Allison N. Schroeder","orcid":"0000-0001-8325-7167","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1449591,"name":"N Cowan","orcid":null,"position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":57,"raw_metadata":{"citation_network_status":"fetched"},"created_at":"2026-07-19T02:54:37.527189Z","pmid":"41112907","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}