Point-of-Care Ultrasound Training and Credentialing for mid-late Career Emergency Physicians: Is it worth it?

Credentialing Late Career Emergency Physicians

Authors

  • Courtney M. Smalley, MD Cleveland Clinic Health System https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3825-6429
  • Erin L. Simon, DO Akron General Medical Center
  • McKinsey R. Muir MHSA Cleveland Clinic Health System
  • Fernando Delgado MSIE Cleveland Clinic Health System
  • Baruch S. Fertel MD, MPA Cleveland Clinic

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24908/pocus.v6i2.14891

Keywords:

Credentialing, Point-of-Care Ultrasound, Late-Career Physician, Competency, Privileging, Emergency Medicine

Abstract

Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is becoming more prevalent in community emergency medicine (EM) practice with the current American College of Emergency Physician guidelines recommending POCUS training for all graduates from United States based residency programs as well as support for POCUS privileging by the American Medical Association. However, in a recent survey of nonacademic EDs, it was found that most providers lack US training, credentialing, and quality assurance (QA) assessments of their POCUS studies. In 2017, our healthcare system embarked on a system-wide credentialing process for POCUS to credential community physicians with little to no POCUS training.

Author Biographies

Courtney M. Smalley, MD, Cleveland Clinic Health System

Emergency Services Institute, Cleveland Clinic Health System, Cleveland, OH; 2Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

Erin L. Simon, DO, Akron General Medical Center

Department of Emergency Medicine, Akron General Medical Center, Akron, Ohio, 5Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED), Rootstown, Ohio,

Baruch S. Fertel MD, MPA, Cleveland Clinic

Emergency Services Institute, Cleveland Clinic Health System, Cleveland, OH; Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH,

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Published

2021-11-23 — Updated on 2021-12-03

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How to Cite

Smalley, C., Simon, E., Muir, M., Delgado, F., & Fertel, B. (2021). Point-of-Care Ultrasound Training and Credentialing for mid-late Career Emergency Physicians: Is it worth it? Credentialing Late Career Emergency Physicians. POCUS Journal, 6(2), 56–57. https://doi.org/10.24908/pocus.v6i2.14891 (Original work published November 23, 2021)

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 2 (2021): POCUS Journal Vol 06 Iss 02

Section

Letters

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Copyright (c) 2021 Courtney Smalley, Erin Simon, Baruch Fertel

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