TY - JOUR AU - Glogoza, Matt AU - Urbach, Jonathan AU - Rosborough, Terry K. AU - Olet, Susan AU - St. Hill, Catherine A. AU - Smith, Claire S. AU - Tierney, David M. PY - 2020 DA - 2020/04/16 TI - Tablet vs. station-based laptop ultrasound devices increases internal medicine resident point-of-care ultrasound performance: a prospective cohort study JO - The Ultrasound Journal SP - 18 VL - 12 IS - 1 AB - Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is becoming an important part of internal medicine (IM) residency training. Achieving competency requires performing a large volume of clinical exams which can be difficult within the constraints of residency. Often-cited barriers include insufficient resident time and the interruption of daily workflow. Despite availability of hospital station-based laptop ultrasound machines, we hypothesized that the addition of ward team-based tablet ultrasound devices would lower barriers and increase clinical POCUS volume within an IM residency POCUS curriculum at a 670-bed, quaternary care, teaching hospital. IM resident POCUS volumes and characteristics during an 18-mo. baseline (station-based laptop devices only) period were compared to matched months during the intervention (station-based + tablet). SN - 2524-8987 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13089-020-00165-8 DO - 10.1186/s13089-020-00165-8 ID - Glogoza2020 ER -