Education Indicators for Internal Medicine Point-of-Care Ultrasound: a Consensus Report from the Canadian Internal Medicine Ultrasound (CIMUS) Group.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Curriculum development and implementation for internal medicine point-of-care ultrasound (IM POCUS) continues to be a challenge for many residency training programs. Education indicators may provide a useful framework to support curriculum development and implementation efforts across programs in order to achieve a consistent high-quality educational experience.

Objective

This study seeks to establish consensus-based recommendations for education indicators for IM POCUS training programs in Canada.

Design

This consensus study uses a modified nominal group technique for voting in the initial round, followed by two additional rounds of online voting, with consensus defined as agreement by at least 80% of the participants.

Participants

Participants were

SUBMITTER: Ambasta A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6816798 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature