COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Standards for hospitalists in point-of-care ultrasound training and assessment are not well established, and most internal medicine residency training programs have only begun to incorporate POCUS in their curricula. Internal medicine residents lack background and historical context of POCUS. This knowledge gap limits their ability to contextualize current training expectations, credentialing requirements, and clinical applications in hospital medicine practice.

TARGET AUDIENCE:
Physicians, Baptist Hospital Medical Staff, pharmacists, nurses, and medical residents

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

• Describe the historical development of point-of-care ultrasound as a bedside tool in clinical practice
• Identify key technological advancements that enabled the expansion of POCUS applications from procedural guidance to diagnostic imaging
• Apply knowledge of POCUS evolution to understand current training, credentialing, and clinical integration standards in hospital medicine

FACULTY AND DISCLOSURES:

Manmeet Ahluwalia, M.D., MBA
Fernandez Family Foundation Endowed Chair in Cancer Research
Deputy Director
Chief, Scientific Officer
Chief, Solid Tumor Medical Oncology
Baptist Health Miami Cancer Institute
Member, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Alliance
Miami, Florida

Resa E. Lewiss M.D.
Adjunct Professor of Emergency Medicine
The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Providence, RI

Manmeet Ahluwalia, M.D., faculty of this educational activity, is a consultant for Bayer, Xoft, Apollomics, Autem Therapeutics, GT Medical Technologies, Modifi Biosciences, Bugworks Research, Allovir Therapeutics, Equilium, VBI Vaccines, Servier Pharmaceuticals, Incyte Pharmaceuticals, Recordati, and Pfizer; owns stock from Mimivax, Trisalus Lifesciences, and LiveAI, and has indicated that the presentation or discussion will not include off-label or unapproved product usage.

Resa E. Lewiss M.D., faculty of this educational activity author for Harper Collins Publisher, and a healthcare consultant, and has indicated that the presentation or discussion will not include off-label or unapproved product usage.

Tina Sanjar, M.D, and Seema Chandra, M.D., Amalia Landa Galindez, directors of this educational activity, have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* to disclose, and have indicated that the presentation(s) or discussion(s) will not include off-label or unapproved product usage.

All of the relevant financial relationships listed for this individual have been mitigated.

Non-faculty contributors and others involved in the planning, development, and editing/review of the content have no relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies*

*Ineligible companies - Companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Disclosure Policy and Disclaimer

ACCREDITATION STATEMENTS AND CREDITS

Baptist Health South Florida is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Baptist Health has been re-surveyed by the ACCME and awarded Commendation for 6 years as a provider of CME for physicians.

Baptist Health South Florida designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.   

This activity has been approved for 1 credit hour, CE Broker Course #20-1325054, by the Florida Boards of Medicine, Osteopathic Medicine and Physician Assistants.  

This activity is approved for 1 credit for Nurse Practitioners, Nurses, Dietitians, Pharmacists and Techs and Respiratory Therapists. Baptist Health South Florida CE Broker Provider #50-182.

American Board of Internal Medicine Maintenance of Certification

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1 Medical Knowledge MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

Your participation information will be shared with specialty boards through the ACCME's PARS reporting system. Submissions are recorded in approximately 48 hours. You will receive an email when your credits have been processed.