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Published on in Vol 12 (2026)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/86730, first published .
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A Competency Assessment Tool for Liver Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Among Sonography Trainees: Development and Multicenter Validation Study

A Competency Assessment Tool for Liver Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Among Sonography Trainees: Development and Multicenter Validation Study

Yanping Ma   1 ;   Bowen Zheng   1 ;   Jie Ren   1 * ;   Wen He   2 * ;   Lei Shang   3 ;   Hui Wang   4 ;   Gaiqin Xue   5 ;   Fang Nie   6 ;   Yanli Guo   7 ;   Yukun Luo   8 ;   Hongxia Zhang   2 ;   Xuan Wang   2 ;   Xiang Jing   9 ;   Ruifang Zhang   10 ;   Jianjun Yuan   11 ;   Rong Wu   12 ;   Xiaomao Luo   13 ;   Fenglin Dong   14 ;   Yan Luo   15 ;   Qiang Lu   15 ;   Jintang Liao   16 ;   Pintong Huang   17 ;   Qin Chen   18 ;   Jia’an Zhu   19 ;   Youfeng Xu   20 ;   Xiaoyan Xie   21

1 Department of Medical Ultrasonics, Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

2 Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

3 Department of Health Statistics, School of Preventive Medicine, Air Force Medical University, Xi'an, China

4 Department of Ultrasound, China-Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University, Jilin, China

5 Shanxi Provincial Cancer Hospital, Taiyuan, China

6 Lanzhou University Second Hospital, Lanzhou, China

7 The First Hospital Affiliated to AMU, Chongqing, China

8 Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

9 Tianjin Third Central Hospital, Tianjin, China

10 First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China

11 Henan Provincial People's Hospital, Zhengzhou, China

12 Shanghai First People's Hospital, Shanghai, China

13 Yunnan Cancer Hospital, Kunming, China

14 First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Soochow, China

15 West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Sihchuan, China

16 Xiangya Hospital Central South University, Changsha, China

17 Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

18 Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences & Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, Chengdu, China

19 Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing, China

20 The Affiliated First Hospital of Ningbo University, Ningbo, China

21 The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

*these authors contributed equally

Corresponding Author:

  • Jie Ren
  • Department of Medical Ultrasonics
  • Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University
  • 600 Tianhe Road
  • Guangzhou 510630
  • China
  • Phone: 86 13925155583
  • Email: renj@mail.sysu.edu.cn