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The PRIME POCUS Learning Network

The Point-of-Care Ultrasound Research, Medical Education & Innovation Network

Academic family medicine’s home for POCUS educators.

A national academic collaborative of family medicine clinicians and educators — nine regional hubs advancing point-of-care ultrasound in primary care. Hover over a hub for details.

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What the network does

PRIME POCUS brings together family medicine clinicians, educators and researchers to make point-of-care ultrasound teachable, measurable and sustainable in primary care. This is where we publish the working tools and toolkits built by network faculty.

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Research

Evidence, gathered and shared

Building capacity for multi-site family medicine POCUS research — focused on education and implementation.

Medical education

Curriculum by family medicine for family medicine

The PRIME POCUS Scholars program and hands-on workshops across the network's academic hubs.

Innovation

Tools and toolkits to make family medicine POCUS implementation easier

Authoring tools, literature surveillance, and practice-economics tools and toolkits built by network faculty working to spread POCUS within family medicine.

Our academic home

PRIME POCUS Learning Network

The network is based in the Department of Family Medicine at the UNC School of Medicine, with an advisory committee drawn from the AAFP, ACOFP, ADFM, STFM, AFMRD, NAPCRG and ABFM. Workshops, memberships, curriculum, assessment and the research program all live at primepocus.org.

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