Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS)

As a first-year AnMed family medicine resident, you’ll always have a handheld, portable ultrasound device available to go with a mobile phone or tablet. We’re pushing medicine forward by integrating POCUS capabilities into our residency, just like major medical centers.

POCUS Training

All family medicine residency tracks integrate ultrasound training into a workshop environment. You’ll practice on two state-of-the-art ultrasound simulators and use Butterfly pocket ultrasounds in the family medicine center and on your hospital rotations. 

This extra training gives you an important skill for real-life patient care, such as global medicine trips, sports medicine clinics, inpatient procedures, and obstetrics and gynecology care. We envision that most residents will have an ultrasound device in their pocket soon.

Preparing You for the Future

Integrating your POCUS training into your practice will be valuable when you're a family physician. POCUS can address some patient barriers to imaging services and allows you to make critical decisions and diagnose medical conditions at the point of care.