Novel POCUS curriculum boosts EM resident knowledge and scan quality in Tanzania

A novel POCUS curriculum in Tanzania improved EM residents' knowledge by 38.9% and OSCE scores by 40.7%, with scan accuracy up 3.3% and strong inter-rater agreement (kappa 0.83) in a 17-resident pre-post study.

• Pre-post intervention study with 17 first-year EM residents; 4557 ultrasound scans reviewed.
• Knowledge assessment scores increased 38.9% (95% CI 32.9–54.0), OSCE scores 40.7% (CI 35.6–45.8).
• Image quality improved by 0.12 (ACEP scale); accuracy by 3.3%; local faculty QA agreement was high for accuracy (κ=0.83) but fair for image quality (κ=0.30).

Single-center, pre-post design without control group; generalizability to other settings not assessed.

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