Table 4 Interview guide for the individual interviews
Introduction | Questions |
|---|---|
During the course you had the opportunity to try color Doppler. | How did you think the color-Doppler helped you to see deviations? |
How did the color affect your ability to see deviations from normal? | |
How can color be used to facilitate the assessment? | |
How would you compare the assessment without color and with color added? | |
Several of the course participants said that assessment is facilitated if they themselves perform the ultrasound examination rather than assessing images obtained by someone else. | What do you think about that? |
Is it possible to “see” with your hands? How? | |
During the course you were to decide whether a number of cases were normal or abnormal. | What is important for you to be able to make a good assessment? |
What do you need to be able to judge an image as normal or not? | |
What do you do if you are unsure? | |
Several of the course participants found it difficult to make the judgment with the help of images. | What do you find that is difficult about this? |
If you look at your ability to make judgments now, compared with before the course, how has it been affected? | |
How have you been able to train your ability to make judgments after the course? | |
If you look at the structure of the course after completing it | What do you think about that now? |
What could have been done differently and why? | |
If you compare your ability to use the technique now compared to before the course. | What do you think about that now? |