• Anna Maw, Cathy Jalali, Deanna Jannat-Khah, Kirana Gudi, Lia Logio, Arthur Evans, Stacy Anderson, and Joshua Smith.
• Department of Hospital Medicine, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA.
• Med Educ Online. 2016 Jan 1; 21: 33287.

AbstractLack 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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