EMR SmartPhrase and Faculty Training Improve Resident Point-of-Care Ultrasound Integration

After an electronic medical record (EMR) SmartPhrase and faculty-led teaching, 87% of internal medicine residents reported better integration of point-of-care ultrasound into patient assessment, and 75% requested more training; 30 exams were documented by 11 residents.

• Quality improvement project on an internal medicine teaching service; baseline surveys completed by 23 residents and postintervention surveys by 8.
• Interventions were an EMR SmartPhrase (.POCUSReport) for standardized documentation plus faculty-led education.
• EMR analytics recorded 30 documented point-of-care ultrasound exams by 11 unique residents.

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