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MEDICAL EDUCATION ONLINE
Volume 21, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.3402/meo.v21.33287
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point of care ultrasound; faculty development; internal medicine; physical exam; bedside diagnosis
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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.
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