Ultrasound Ordering Practices in Outpatient Clinics - A Basis for Outpatient Internal Medicine POCUS Curriculum Development
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Authors: Anne Mao, University of Pennsylvania Nova Panebianco, University of Pennsylvania Jeffrey Kramer, University of Pennsylvania Frances Shofer, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine Gwen Baraniecki-Zwil, University of Pennsylvania ,
Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS), though pioneered in emergency medicine, has recently been seeing expansion and integration into other specialties including Internal Medicine (IM). Several studies describe a residency POCUS curriculum for inpatient IM and outpatient Family Medicine (FM). However there is a lack of research on the scans of highest utility in an outpatient IM setting. This study looks at ultrasounds ordered within an internal medicine outpatient clinic, staffed mostly by residents, to assess what the most commonly ordered ultrasounds and the most commonly associated diagnoses codes are. This data is to provide a guideline for curriculum development of POCUS education for the outpatient internal medicine physician.