Effect of foosball practice on veterinary students’ bovine artificial insemination skills

Mia Norton, Annett Annandale
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Live cow artificial insemination (AI) opportunities are limited at training institutions, and this study explored a novel approach to better prepare students for the task. Since the arm and wrist movement while playing foosball (FB) is like picking up the cervix during AIs, the effect of playing FB on veterinary students’ AI performance was investigated. Objective was to determine if playing FB would improve students bovine AI ability through muscle memory development. Fourth year (of a 5 year course) veterinary students (n = 28) either took part in the FB cohort (n = 17) or the nonFB cohort (n = 11). The FB cohort played 30 minutes of FB 3 times/week for 8 weeks. Both cohorts then participated in AI training using bovine cadaver uteruses before they were assessed on their ability to place an AI pipette into a live cow’s uterus. Although there was no difference between cohorts (p = 0.58) there was a higher proportion of successful students in the FB (0.35) compared to the nonFB cohort (0.18). Small cohort size, the fact that only 11 students completed the allocated FB play time, and participants’ transrectal palpation (TRP) inexperience may have influenced the result. This should, however, not discourage further investigations into alternative teaching approaches. Furthermore, this study highlighted the importance of assessing competence for clinical skills that are required to learn new skills first (TRP in this case) before attempting to teach a new, more advanced skill (AI in this case). This is likely to be applicable for many other clinical skills.
桌上足球训练对兽医学生牛人工授精技能的影响
在培训机构中,活牛人工授精(AI)的机会有限,本研究探索了一种新的方法来更好地为学生做好准备。由于玩桌上足球(FB)时手臂和手腕的运动就像在人工智能中捡起子宫颈一样,因此我们研究了玩桌上足球对兽医学生人工智能表现的影响。目的是确定玩FB是否会通过肌肉记忆的发展来提高学生的人工智能能力。四年级(5年制课程)兽医学生(n = 28)分别参加FB队列(n = 17)和非FB队列(n = 11)。《FB》参与者每周玩3次,每次30分钟,持续8周。然后,两个队列都参加了使用牛尸体子宫的人工智能训练,然后评估他们将人工智能移液管放入活牛子宫的能力。虽然队列之间没有差异(p = 0.58),但FB队列中成功学生的比例(0.35)高于非FB队列(0.18)。队列规模小,事实上只有11名学生完成了分配的FB游戏时间,参与者的经直肠触诊(TRP)经验不足可能影响了结果。然而,这不应该阻碍对替代教学方法的进一步研究。此外,该研究强调了评估临床技能能力的重要性,在尝试教授新的、更高级的技能(人工智能)之前,需要先学习新技能(在本例中为TRP)。这可能适用于许多其他临床技能。
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