Beyond the Numbers: Assessing Competency in Point-of-Care Ultrasound
Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) has been a core component of emergency medicine practice and residency training for over a decade.1-3 Emergency medicine resident and attending physicians must demonstrate POCUS competency prior to the independent utilization of this skill in clinical practice. Many established guidelines to define proficiency have been primarily based upon a set number of POCUS…