Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Family Medicine Residencies 5-Year Update: A CERA Study.

Background And Objectives: In 2014, family medicine residency programs began to integrate point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) into training, although very few had an established POCUS curriculum. This study aimed to evaluate the resources, barriers, and scope of POCUS training in family medicine residencies 5 years after its inception.

Methods: Questions regarding current training and use of POCUS were included in the 2019 Council of Academic Family Medicine Educational Research Alliance (CERA) survey of family medicine residency program directors, and results compared to similar questions on the 2014 CERA survey.

Canadian national survey of family medicine residents on point-of-care ultrasound training.

Objective: To assess the quality of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) training in family medicine residency programs and to obtain the opinions of current family medicine residents on the role of ultrasound in primary care.

Design: A 23-question online survey conducted using SurveyMonkey between March 15 and June 30, 2017.

Setting: Canada.

Canadian national survey of point-of-care ultrasound training in family medicine residency programs.

Objective: To assess the current state of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) training in Canadian family medicine residency programs.

Design: Cross-sectional survey to evaluate POCUS education in accredited Canadian family medicine residency programs; only 1 completed survey was accepted per residency program.

Setting: Seventeen accredited Canadian family medicine residency programs.

Barriers to point-of-care ultrasound use in rural emergency departments.

Over the past few decades, point-of-care ultrasound (PoCUS) has come to play a major role in the practice of emergency medicine. Despite its numerous benefits, there has been a slow uptake of PoCUS use in rural emergency departments. Surveys conducted across Canada and the United States have identified a lack of equipment, training, funding, quality assurance, and an inability to maintain skills as major barriers to PoCUS use.

Vision deficits precede structural losses in a mouse model of mitochondrial dysfunction and progressive retinal degeneration.

Current animal models of retinal disease often involve the rapid development of a retinal disease phenotype; however, this is at odds with age-related diseases that take many years to manifest clinical symptoms. The present study was performed to examine an apoptosis-inducing factor (Aif)-deficient model, the harlequin carrier mouse (X(hq)X), and determine how mitochondrial dysfunction and subsequent accelerated aging affect the function and structure of the mouse retina. Vision and eye structure for cohorts of 6 X(hq)X and 6 wild type mice at 3, 11, and 15 months of age were studied using in vivo electroretinography (ERG), and optical coherence tomography (OCT).