STFM Announces A New Family Medicine Pocus Educator’s Certificate Program

Caroline Tanner; STFM

doi:10.1370/afm.3025

Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) is recruiting core faculty and faculty instructors to develop the following components of the Certificate Program, which will launch in summer 2024. STFM is accepting applications for core faculty and faculty instructors for a new STFM Family Medicine Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Educator’s Certificate Program. This program will train family medicine residency faculty to serve as their program’s POCUS champion with the skills to train family medicine

Faculty will help to develop the program workshops & modules in 2023-2024 and will lead components of the certificate program once it launches in May 2024. Faculty members will serve a 3-year term and are eligible for an additional 3-year term renewal.

Requirements

Workshop Component

Participants must attend 3 POCUS workshops.

Online Modules

Participants must complete an STFM module series focused on teaching as well as content-based POCUS modules.

Mentorship

Participants will be assigned a POCUS mentor as a resource during their time enrolled in the certificate program.

Education Review

Virtual education reviews focusing on giving feedback on images as you would to your learner.

Image Portfolio

Participants will upload images for faculty to review and give feedback. This will give participants the opportunity to receive individual feedback as well as getting signed off scans to use for credentialing.