POCUS Training for Family Medicine
Point-of-care ultrasound CME training for family physicians
Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) can revolutionize the primary care setting by creating a host of benefits, including eliminating referrals to hospitals or urgent cares.
POCUS training is often geared toward hospital settings, but this course is designed specifically for family physicians. Additionally, the activity addresses the updated ACGME curriculum that includes required experience for residents.
- Practical POCUS
- Skin and soft tissue
- Musculoskeletal upper extremity
- Abdominal aortic aneurysm screen
- Basic cardiac and lung evaluation
- Early pregnancy and obstetrics in labor and delivery
Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) can revolutionize the primary care setting by creating a host of benefits, including eliminating referrals to hospitals or urgent cares.
POCUS training is often geared toward hospital settings, but this course is designed specifically for family physicians. Additionally, the activity addresses the updated ACGME curriculum that includes required experience for residents.
- Practical POCUS
- Skin and soft tissue
- Musculoskeletal upper extremity
- Abdominal aortic aneurysm screen
- Basic cardiac and lung evaluation
- Early pregnancy and obstetrics in labor and delivery
Learning Objectives
Recognize how diagnostic ultrasound equipment works and how to properly obtain useful, interpretable images.
Recognize the normal and abnormal sonographic appearance of the organs and structures involved in the specific clinical application.
Obtain images of the specific clinical application and use them at the point-of-care for clinical decision making.
Utilize appropriate coding and billing documentation.
Speakers and sessions
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screen
Andrea Lewis, DO, MPH
Early Pregnancy Ultrasound
Joy Shen-Wagner, MD, FAAFP
Intro to Gyn
Andrea Lewis, DO, MPH
Introduction to Lung Ultrasound
Joy Shen-Wagner, MD, FAAFP
Introduction to Ultrasound Physics
Mark Deutchman, MD, FAAFP
Limited Cardiac
Michael Wagner, MD
Limited Obstetric Ultrasound in Labor and Delivery
Joel Amidon, MD; Mark Deutchman, MD, FAAFP
Liver, Spleen, and Peritoneal Cavity
Mark Deutchman, MD, FAAFP
Musculoskeletal Upper Extremity
Matt Chan, MD
Practice Management
Paul Bornemann, MD
Renal and Bladder
Michael Wagner, MD
Skin and Soft Tissue
Joy Shen-Wagner, MD, FAAFP