![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.dailyrounds.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/GettyImages-149616435-5984b720396e5a0011f638d3.jpg\")
A team of MBBS students from AIIMS jointly with IIT Delhi has developed a unique broadcasting stethoscope to help the medical students and teachers. The students can learn the auscultation technique- listening to sounds from the heart, lungs and other organs for diagnosis- while the faculty can use this stethoscope for mass teaching.\n\u201cWhile teaching, the patient faces discomfort if students use the stethoscope one by one, to understand the variation in sounds. But with the broadcast stethoscope, we can teach 10-15 students at once, allowing them space to discuss the interpretation of the sounds. This is an innovative approach which makes it easier for patients and students to study auscultation. Surprisingly, no one thought of it earlier,\u201d said Dr Vineet Ahuja, associate dean, research, AIIMS.
\nTamoghna Ghosh, one of the AIIMS students behind the innovation, said, \u201cIn a cardiology class, only one student can listen to the heartbeat at a time using the normal stethoscope. It takes time. This device will change it.\u201d The Associate Dean of AIIMS academics, Dr Rajeev Kumar said that a doctor could attach this device to his stethoscope whenever the doctor wishes to transmit sound.
\nStudents from AIIMS spent four weeks at IIT-Delhi as part of an exchange programme, working with engineering students and teachers, to develop the device. Officials said this was the first time that a structured programme has been started by the institute. \u201cStudents have been sent to five different places for innovation and training programmes. A curriculum was drawn up for the purpose,\u201d said Kumar. \u201cThis will continue in the coming year too. For the first time in an exchange programme, our students came up with this innovation,\u201d he added.
\nThe device is in the testing phase and will soon be available in the market for less than Rs 10,000.<\/p>\n