Six-Year Experience in Teaching Pelvic Floor Ultrasonography Using Pelvic Floor Phantoms

OBJECTIVE:To review our 6-year experience (2009–2015) in teaching three-dimensional pelvic floor ultrasonography workshops that utilized pelvic floor phantoms in the setting of an Objective Structured Assessment of Technical Skills methodology. METHODS:Four-hour Objective Structured Assessment of Technical Skills workshops were given at several society meetings and involved a didactic session, a hands-on session using the pelvic floor phantoms, and a computer station session reviewing pelvic floor pathologies. We analyzed improvement in participantsʼ diagnostic skills using a test with 60 illustrated questions of normal and pathologic findings in live human models. RESULTS:Two hundred forty-three attendees completed the 60-question test before and after attending the workshop. Paired t test showed a significant improvement in attendeesʼ average scores after the workshop in all categoriesanatomy, normal, or pathologic endovaginal imaging and normal or pathologic endoanal imaging (P