SHM Converge Scientific Abstract ePoster Gallery-Creating Pocus Champions: A Hospitalist Lead Longitudinal Multi-Specialty Pocus Curriculum for Faculty

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This project describes a hospitalist-led, longitudinal point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) curriculum created to train faculty across multiple specialties. The motivation was that POCUS is increasingly important across subspecialties, but expert faculty are a major bottleneck to broader adoption.<br /><br />To assess interest and need, the team surveyed 188 faculty from 14 clinical subspecialties. Interest was very high: 167 respondents (88.8%) said they were likely or highly likely to enroll. Based on this, the program was designed in partnership with the School of Medicine, Faculty Development, and Simulation.<br /><br />The curriculum was a 10-month course totaling 40 hours of CME and included weekly 2-hour sessions. Key components were virtual didactics, hands-on workshops, supervised clinical scanning, portfolio development, quality assurance image review, and final assessment. The course covered core POCUS applications such as musculoskeletal/soft tissue, DVT/vascular, abdomen, renal/GU, lung, and cardiac ultrasound.<br /><br />The initial cohort included 16 faculty selected from 38 applicants, representing 6 departments and 9 clinical subspecialties. Participants included 10 physicians and 6 APPs, with more than 40% having over 10 years in practice. Most worked primarily inpatient, and prior ultrasound experience varied: 50% had no formal training, 44% had only limited workshop exposure, and usage was mixed, with 30% using POCUS monthly and 25% rarely using it.<br /><br />The authors conclude that there is strong faculty demand for robust POCUS education and that it is feasible to train a diverse, multi-specialty cohort. They suggest that “un-siloing” POCUS education can help overcome an important barrier to wider clinical use, and that hospitalists can serve as effective champions and facilitators for faculty development across specialties.

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James E. Anstey

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Author List Andrea Cedfeldt, James E. Anstey, Kevin Piro, Michael Wollenberg

Category Innovations

Concept Point-of-Care Ultrasound

Concept Faculty Development

Concept Curriculum

Concept Supervised Scanning

Concept Interdisciplinary Education

Distinguished Non-Finalist

Presenter Organization Division of Hospital Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University

Presenting Author James E. Anstey

Track Education

Keywords

point-of-care ultrasound

POCUS curriculum

faculty development

hospitalist-led training

multispecialty education

clinical ultrasound

hands-on workshops

simulation-based learning

faculty survey

ultrasound training

Point-of-Care Ultrasound

Faculty Development

Curriculum

Supervised Scanning

Interdisciplinary Education