Best Practices for a Competency-based Curriculum in Critical Care Ultrasonography for Fellows.

Publication/Presentation Date

6-1-2025

Abstract

New guidelines from the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education for critical care ultrasound (CCUS) training went into effect on July 1, 2024, for critical care medicine and combined pulmonary and critical care medicine fellows. Fellowship programs will need to ensure that their fellows demonstrate competence in skills that are essential to CCUS, which currently encompasses applications in basic cardiac, lung/pleural, abdominal, and vascular ultrasonography (US). This may be a challenge for fellowship programs that have nascent CCUS curricula and limited faculty expertise. In this Perspective, we share expert and evidence-based recommendations on how to implement a competency-based curriculum in CCUS. We review best practices for equipment requirements, introductory and longitudinal curricula, competency assessment and certification, faculty requirements and development, and continuous programmatic quality improvement.

Volume

6

Issue

2

First Page

149

Last Page

161

ISSN

2690-7097

Disciplines

Business Administration, Management, and Operations | Health and Medical Administration | Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods

PubMedID

40586528

Department(s)

Administration and Leadership

Document Type

Article

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