POCUS Education – POCUS Journal

POCUS Journal supports the open access of educational resources to support clinician, trainees, and researchers with their point-of-care ultrasound practice, whether it’s learning new skills, or refreshing old ones. On this page, you’ll find educational resources such as video learning modules created and shared by experts in the POCUS community.

Latest Podcasts

POCUS Journal Podcast Episode 09: “Best Practices for Point of Care Ultrasound: An Interdisciplinary Expert Consensus”
In the 9th episode of the POCUS Journal podcast, our Editor-In-Chief Dr. Benjamin Galen invited the author Brandon Otto to discuss the expert consensus article entitled “Best Practices for Point of Care Ultrasound: An Interdisciplinary Expert Consensus ”, recently published in POCUS Journal Vol 09 Iss 01, released April 2024. Full issue at the link: ⁠https://pocusjournal.com/issue/vol-09-iss-01-2024/ Release date: June 5th, 2024. Edited by Laura Guzman Audio-only version: Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Articles discussed in this podcast: Best Practices for Point of Care Ultrasound: An Interdisciplinary Expert Consensus
POCUS Journal Podcast Episode 08: “Association of Internal Medicine Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) with Length of Stay, Hospitalization Costs, and Formal Imaging: a Prospective Cohort Study”
In the 8th episode of the POCUS Journal podcast, our Editor-In-Chief Dr. Benjamin Galen, and internal medicine Section Editors Dr. Tanping Wong and Dr. Trevor Jensen, are joined by Dr. David M. Tierney to discuss his original research article entitled “Association of Internal Medicine Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) with Length of Stay, Hospitalization Costs, and Formal Imaging: a Prospective Cohort Study”, recently published in POCUS Journal Vol 08 Iss 02, released November 2023. Full issue at the link: ⁠https://pocusjournal.com/issue/vol-08-iss-02-2023/⁠ Release date: Dec 18, 2023. Edited by Braeden Hill. Audio-only version: Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Google Podcasts Listen on… Read more: POCUS Journal Podcast Episode 08: “Association of Internal Medicine Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) with Length of Stay, Hospitalization Costs, and Formal Imaging: a Prospective Cohort Study”

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Online Educational Resources

ARCTICA POCUS is an ultrasound and POCUS training platform curated by the founders of POCUS Journal, offering accredited POCUS training modules and certificates.

CORE Ultrasound is a free resource created by POCUS educators to share useful how-to POCUS videos, weekly cases and answers, podcasts, lectures, and more!

The POCUS Atlas is a collaborative ultrasound education platform aiming to create, share, and curate free ultrasound educational content contributed by educators globally.

Zedu Ultrasound Training Solutions is a resource created by POCUS educators offering a diversity of POCUS certification courses, training tips, and free e-books.

The Penn Medicine Point of Care Ultrasound Education page provides free online access to medical education (FOAMed), specifically for POCUS.

Introduction to Lung POCUS

by Luke Wu, MD, MSc; Salwa Nihal, MBBS, Mphil, MSc; Steven Montague, MD, FRCP; and Amer Johri, MD, MSc, FRCP, FASE.

This 3 part series of educational video modules will take you through the basics of lung point-of-care ultrasound.

Part 1: Theory, indications, and image acquisition
Part 2: Normal and pathological signs
Part 3: Approach to diagnosis of respiratory failure using lung ultrasound profiles