ArticleBMC medical education2021
Design and evaluation of the I-SCAN faculty POCUS program.
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- Impact Evaluation of a Clinical Point-of-care Ultrasound Intervention in an Academic Emergency Department.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2026Article
- Defining minimum image quality criteria for common diagnostic point-of-care ultrasound images: A position statement of the Society of Hospital Medicine.Journal of hospital medicine · 2026Review
- Standardizing Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Credentialing in Internal Medicine Training.Cureus · 2025Article
- Evaluation of an International Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Training Program for Internal Medicine Physicians.POCUS journal · 2025Article
- Knowledge and Confidence Among Five Cohorts of Faculty Learners in a Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Program: Factors Defining Learner Success.POCUS journal · 2024Article
- Unravelling the skillset of point-of-care ultrasound: a systematic review.The ultrasound journal · 2023Review
- Design and comparison of a hybrid to a traditional in-person point-of-care ultrasound course.The ultrasound journal · 2022Article
- Development and Remodeling of Point-of-Care Ultrasound Education for Emergency Medicine Residents in Resource Limited Countries during the COVID-19 Pandemic.Tomography (Ann Arbor, Mich.) · 2021Article
- Assessing Clinical Integration of Point-of-Care Ultrasound With an Objective Structured Clinical Examination.Journal of medical education and curricular developmentArticle
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Abstract
backgroundPoint-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is becoming widely adopted with increasing accessibility of courses. Little is known about the optimal design of the introductory course or longitudinal training programs targeting hospitalists that are critical to success.
methodsHospitalists at four academic sites participated in a two-day introductory course and a longitudinal phase comprising clinical POCUS practice, clip uploading with online feedback, hands-on teaching, and monthly ultrasound conferences. Assessments were performed immediately before and after the two-day course and after 1 year.
resultsKnowledge increased from baseline to post two-day course (median score 58 and 85%, respectively, p < 0.001) and decreased slightly at 1 year (median score 81%, p = 0.012). After the two-day introductory course, the median score for hands-on image acquisition skills, the principal metric of participant success, was 75%. After 1 year, scores were similar (median score 74%). Confidence increased from baseline to post two-day course (1.5 to 3.1 on a 4 point Likert scale from Not at all confident (1) to Very confident (4), p < 0.001), and remained unchanged after 1 year (2.73). Course elements correlating with a passing score on the final hands-on test included number of clip uploads (r = 0.85, p,0.001), attendance at hands-on sessions (r = 0.7, p = 0.001), and attendance at monthly conferences (r = 0.50, p = 0.03).
conclusionsThe I-ScaN POCUS training program increased hospitalist knowledge, skill and confidence with maintained skill and confidence after 1 year. Uploading clips and attending hands-on teaching sessions were most correlative with participant success.
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