Ultrasound guidance is used increasingly to perform the following 6 bedside procedures that
are core competencies of hospitalists: abdominal paracentesis, arterial catheter placement …

Many hospitalists are routinely granted hospital privileges to perform invasive bedside
procedures, but criteria for privileging are not well described. We conducted a survey of 21 …

Objective Although there are training guidelines to credential emergency physicians in
bedside ultrasound, many faculty groups have members who completed residency without a …

Though the use of point‐of‐care ultrasound (POCUS) has increased over the last decade,
formal hospital credentialing for POCUS may still be a challenge for hospitalists. This …

Objectives This study sought to define the competencies in ultrasound knowledge and skills
that are essential for medical trainees to master to perform ultrasound‐guided central …

Background The use of emergency ultrasonography (EUS) has gained much popularity in
the past few decades, and is now a mainstay of diagnostic decision-making. This expanded …

Emergency physician use of bedside ultrasound has increased dramatically over the last
two decades. However, many emergency departments find it difficult to gain formal hospital …

Background Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is becoming prevalent in the daily practice of
bedside clinicians. As large health care systems standardize practice patterns, an organized …

Methods: The goal was for the physicians to gain competency in 8 basic ultrasound
examinations types: aorta, focused assessment with sonography in trauma, cardiac, renal …

Many hospitalists incorporate point‐of‐care ultrasound (POCUS) into their daily practice to
answer specific diagnostic questions or to guide performance of invasive bedside …