Jessie Huang; Jina Bai; Todd Cutler; Gregory Mints – This case reports a patient who exhibited characteristic lung POCUS in the abdominal region.
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SpacED POCUS: A Randomized Controlled Trial of an Adaptive Spaced Education POCUS Curriculum for Medical Students
Anelah McGinness; Sarah Hancock; Megan Hilbert; Jane Soung; Emily Lovallo – This study evaluates the effectiveness, retention, engagement, and acceptability of adaptive spaced education (spacED) for improving the accuracy of point of care ultrasound (POCUS) image interpretation by medical students.
Seeing Ghosts: A Quality Improvement Intervention to Decrease Phantom Scanning Through Increased Image Archiving of POCUS by Internal Medicine Residents
Linden Kolbenson; Talha Salman; Amanda Oro; Paul Olszynski – Point of care ultrasound (POCUS) is used in internal medicine (IM) to augment clinical decision making and improve procedural safety. Institutionally-supported archiving software can help learners track scan numbers and receive feedback on image acquisition and interpretation.
Evaluation of an International Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Training Program for Internal Medicine Physicians
Katherine Otto Chebly; Elizabeth Hernández; Mary Cifelli; Michael Janjigian – This study aimed to evaluate the impact of the program on UCV learners’ POCUS knowledge and skills, in comparison with outcomes from learners of a similar curriculum at NYU, and the local acceptability of the program to participating learners.
Knowledge and Confidence Among Five Cohorts of Faculty Learners in a Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Program: Factors Defining Learner Success
Michael Janjigian, Anne Dembitzer, Isaac Holmes, Caroline Srisarajivakul-Klein, Khemraj Hardowar, Harald Sauthoff – The availability of faculty proficient in point of care ultrasound (POCUS) has emerged as a barrier to the ongoing expansion of POCUS across the field of internal medicine. We sought to examine the faculty graduates of our institutional POCUS program to identify characteristics associated with long-term proficiency to inform curricula and guide institutional support.
Trends in Point of Care Ultrasound Familiarity Among Undergraduate Medical Clerkship Educators
Nilan Schnure, MD; Mahmoud Mohamed Elfadil, MD; Wilma Chan, MD MSCE; Cameron Baston, MD MSCE; Frances Shofer, PhD; Nova Panebianco, MD MPH – Despite growing use of point of care ultrasound (POCUS), there remains a paucity of data about familiarity with POCUS among educators who dictate curricular content in undergraduate medical education. This paper aims to longitudinally characterize the level of comfort and frequency of POCUS use among faculty involved in undergraduate clerkship education.
High Tech POCUS Education in Remote Environments: An App Review
Jeremy J. Webb; Chad Mosby; John Stadnyk; Michael Jones – In recent years, the development of hand-held devices have intrigued POCUS enthusiasts due to improved affordability, portability, and ease of use. They also provide extra functionality for image storage and transmission for remote provider-to-provider communication and review. Due to these capabilities, portable ultrasound has found its use expanded to pre-hospital, wilderness, and austere settings, where cart-based machines and other imaging modalities are not an option.
Rekindling the Relevance of Obstetrical Transvaginal POCUS: Overcoming Barriers to Ensure Patient-Centered Care
Alexis Salerno; Resa E. Lewiss – The transvaginal pelvic point of care ultrasound (POCUS) examination remains a patient-centered and relevant examination. Since 2008, emergency medicine physicians are required to learn, perform, and interpret POCUS examinations to deliver safe and patient-centered diagnostic and procedural care. Pelvic POCUS is one of these core applications in the emergency physician scope of practice. A pelvic POCUS examination seeks to answer the focused question, “Is there an intrauterine pregnancy (IUP)” and risk stratifies the patient when ectopic pregnancy is a clinical concern.
Effectiveness of Near-Peer Versus Faculty Point-of-Care Ultrasound Instruction to Third-Year Medical Students
Katie Rong, MD; Grace Lee, BS; Meghan Kelly Herbst, MD – Implementation of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in undergraduate medical education (UME) has increased due to a growing appreciation for its value to students as a tool for learning anatomy, enhancing data acquisition during the physical exam, and formulating a diagnosis.
Impact of Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Medical Decision Making: Informing the Development of an Internal Medicine Global Health POCUS Curriculum
Michelle Fleshner, MD MPH; Steve Fox, MD; Thomas Robertson, MD; Ayako Wendy Fujita, MD; Divya Bhamidipati, MD; Thuy Bui MD – Point-of-care Ultrasound (POCUS) is particularly useful in low-middle income countries (LMICs) where advanced imaging modalities and diagnostics are often unavailable. However, its use among Internal Medicine (IM) practitioners is limited and without standard curricula. This study describes POCUS scans performed by U.S. IM residents rotating in LMICs to provide recommendations for curriculum development.