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The Ultrasound Journal

Table 2 Physicians’ self-reported accreditation and training in POCUS as undergraduates and postgraduates

From: A survey demonstrating that the procedural experience of residents in internal medicine, critical care and emergency medicine is poor: training in ultrasound is required to rectify this

Training and accreditation

Specialty

Internal medicine

Critical care

Emergency medicine

All

N

98

16

30

144

Undergraduate

4 (4.1% M 3)

4 (25%; M 3)

4 (13%; M 1)

12 (8.3%; M 1)

Postgraduate

3 (3.1%; M 3)

16 (100%; M 12)

27 (90%; M 20)

46 (32%; M 35)

Accreditation

0 (0%)

3 (19% M 2)

2 (7.0% M 2)

5 (3.5% M 4)

  1. Data are stratified by specialty. Data are presented as frequency and percentage. Data for internal medicine stratified by postgraduate year of training and gender are presented in Additional file 2: Appendix 2: Table 6. N number of respondents, M male, PGY postgraduate year of training, POCUS point-of-care ultrasound
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