This has become large enough to merit it’s own category. This is by no means a comprehensive list of POCUS resources out there and mention here does not equal endorsement. These are just resources I’ve used or run across in the process of teaching, writing about, and using POCUS. I’ve tried to categorize them, but some fit in multiple categories.
General Educational Resources
Univ of Toronto Perioperative Interactive Education POCUS – Best interactive POCUS training
The POCUS Atlas – A free online image/clip repository
University of Utah Echocardiography and Perioperative Ultrasound – Lots of good cases, teaching videos, and more
SonoSim – Online POCUS training with a simulator probe for practicing the kinetics of POCUS without an ultrasound or patients
Society of Point of Care Ultrasound (SPOCUS) – Lots of good teaching resources
DIY Ultrasound Phantoms – Want to make your own phantoms for ultrasound teaching?
Ultrasound Courses
Society of Critical Care Medicine Advanced Ultrasound Course
CHEST Critical Care Ultrasonography – Society of Chest Medicine offers a Certificate in critical care ultrasound. This page details that process and includes links to the various courses that CHEST offers.
Practical POCUS – Site offering online and live POCUS courses
Resuscitative TEE Project – If you want to learn how to use transthoracic echocardiography in the ICU/ED, I can’t recommend this course enough!
InnovateED Ultrasound – POCUS training specifically aimed at Women’s Health and Midwifery
Ultrasound for Women’s Health Providers – POCUS training specifically aimed at Women’s Health and Midwifery (Director is the former Program Director of WHNP/CNM Program at Georgetown University, where I teach)
American Academy of Family Physicians – Online POCUS course aimed at primary care
Certification
Society of Hospital Medicine POCUS Certificate – Like CHEST, the SHM offers a certification program for POCUS. This page contains information about the process as well as links to a number of different POCUS courses that can be used to meet certification requirements.
Point of Care Ultrasound Certification Academy – POCUS Academy is another option for certification
Ultrasound Devices
Butterfly Ultrasound – Low cost handheld ultrasound device. This site also offers lots of educational resources; some free, some not.
VAVE Ultrasound – Bluetooth handheld ultrasound device. Lots of educational resources with purchase of device.
ACEP Ultrasound Section Handheld Ultrasound Market Roundup – Review and comparison of various types of handheld ultrasound devices as of June 2024
Reimbursement & Billing
Complete Ultrasound CPT Codes and Reimbursement Rates from POCUS 101
SPOCUS Reimbursement Statement – Society of Point of Care Ultrasound
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