Point of care ultrasound in internal medicine in Portugal – where we are and where we should go?

• Author(s): Mariz, José ; Romano, Miguel
• Date: 2023
• Persistent ID: https://hdl.handle.net/1822/95424
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Subject(s): Internal medicine; Medical education; National survey; POCUS
• Document Type: Other
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): Universidade do Minho

Description

[Excerpt] Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is growing rapidly across a broad span of specialties in Medicine as a whole, worldwide. Further, POCUS is driving a revolution in every aspect of clinical practice [1–3]. However, its use and teaching differ significantly among countries [4].Paradoxi cally, parallel to its exponential growth, barriers to POCUS training persist in some aeras, and training programs remain heterogeneous across the world [5]. Recently, a position paper by the ultrasound working group of the European Federation of Internal Medicine (EFIM) was published, pointing to a framework for training programs at a national level [6] and highlighting the evidence of POCUS as indispensable for specific practices as critical care and emergency medicine, and encouraging the EFIM to set European standards for a broader practice of POCUS inside Internal Medicine [7]. Since publication of the position paper, we have identified only one European Internal Medicine society that has undertaken a national survey, in an attempt to establish needs for an educational POCUS program [8]. [...]