• Nicholas Hartman, Mary Wittler, Kim Askew, Brian Hiestand, and David Manthey.
• Department of Emergency Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.
• Postgrad Med J. 2017 Feb 1; 93 (1096): 67-70.

Purpose Of The StudyTools created to measure procedural competency must be tested in their intended environment against an established standard in order to be validated. We previously created a checklist for ultrasound-guided internal jugular central venous catheter (US IJ CVC) insertion using the modified Delphi method. We sought to further validate the checklist tool for use in an educational environment.Study DesignThis is a cohort study involving 15 emergency medicine interns being evaluated on their skill in US IJ CVC placement. We compared the checklist tool with a modified version of a clinically validated global rating scale (GRS) for procedural performance.ResultsThe correlation between the GRS tool and the checklist tool was excellent, with a correlation coefficient (Pearson's r) of 0.90 (p<0.0001).ConclusionsThis checklist represents a useful tool for measuring procedural competency.Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://www.bmj.com/company/products-services/rights-and-licensing/.

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