Faculty development in point of care ultrasound for internists.

Faculty development in point of care ultrasound for internists. Med Educ Online. 2016;21:33287 Authors: Maw A, Jalali C, Jannat-Khah D, Gudi K, Logio L, Evans A, Anderson S, Smith J Abstract Lack of general medicine faculty expertise is a likely contributor to the slow adoption of point of care ultrasound (POCUS) by internal medicine (IM) residency training programs. We developed a 10-week faculty development program, during which 15 faculty members participated in 2 hours and 10 hours of online didactic and hands-on training, respectively. Pre-post comparisons showed that there were statistically significant improvements in faculty participants' ability to interpret images (p<0.001), perceived understanding of the capabilities and limitations of POCUS (p=0.003), comfort using POCUS to make clinical decisions (p=0.003), and perceptions regarding the extent to which POCUS can improve patient care (p=0.026). The next challenge for IM programs is to improve access to ultrasound machines and provide follow-up workshops to facilitate further development of skills and integration of POCUS into daily practice by general medicine faculty. PMID: 27974132 [PubMed - in process]
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