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DOI: https://doi.org/10.24908/pocusj.v11i01.20826

Introduction by Conference Chair

On October 25, 2025, the 5^th annual Séguin Canadian POCUS Education Conference (SCPEC) was held over Zoom. SCPEC is an annual student-led conference that unites Canadian medical students, residents, and staff physicians to collaborate and advance POCUS education across all medical schools. This year’s conference was the largest to date, bringing together over 150 attendees at all levels of training. We were pleased to host our inaugural case competition this year, titled “Breaking Barriers in POCUS Education – Innovate to Educate.” The case competition featured 32 teams of medical students and their creative proposals to improve POCUS training at their medical school. With the expertise of our resident and staff MD judges, the top three case competition teams were awarded the SCPEC 2025 Grant to support the implementation of their POCUS initiative at their home school. We especially thank The POCUS Journal for this partnership to publish the winning teams’ abstracts – showcasing the innovative ideas by Canadian medical students to improve POCUS education.

Congratulations once again to all 150 medical students who participated in SCPEC 2025! We hope you will continue to lead change in POCUS training at your medical school.

I would like to sincerely thank everyone who made SCPEC 2025 possible. To my incredible team of 21 medical student leaders across Canada: thank you for five months of hard work to re-design SCPEC to host a new and successful case competition and conference. A huge thank you to Dr. Tsoutsoulas for his outstanding supervision and mentorship with SCPEC. Many thanks to our keynote speaker, judges, and workshop leaders for their engaging sessions. Finally, thank you to our sponsors; your support makes this national collaboration happen every year.

It has been my absolute privilege to chair SCPEC 2025, and I am so proud of all the medical students across the country who are changing the landscape of POCUS education. We cannot wait to hear of all your successes next year at SCPEC 2026 (https://seguincpec.wixsite.com/scpec).

Sincerely,

Dr. Selina Chow

Conference Chair, SCPEC 2025

PGY1 Resident Physician, Family Medicine, University of Toronto