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Emergency medicine ultrasonography: National survey of family medicine-emergency medicine program directors
Canadian Family Physician, 10/21/09

Woo MY et al. – A growing number of clinicians are using emergency medicine ultrasonography (EMUS) at the bedside in order to answer specific and focused questions relating to patients’ conditions, and various guidelines and position statements support the need for emergency medicine physicians to have the skills to perform EMUS. Training in EMUS in 2006, when the survey was undertaken, was not yet an essential part of emergency medicine residency. This study aimed to assess program directors’ perspectives on the EMUS training currently offered in emergency medicine residency programs and what training should look like in the future. Given that only half of the programs required residents to perform a specified number of supervised or reviewed scans before using EMUS to influence clinical care and that no programs required this requisite to be completed before graduation, it is possible that very few graduating residents are competent in EMUS. As use of EMUS continues to increase, training and quality assurance will have to be strengthened, and funding, resources, and standardization of equipment will need to be addressed.

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