Background: Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is increasingly being used across medical specialties, improving diagnostic accuracy in numerous medical presentations and levels of acuity. Training in these skills is currently offered through major societies, but graduate medical POCUS training in internal medicine and family medicine is not common in US residencies. Therefore, we designed a two-week inpatient […]

Case Presentation: A 41‐year‐old man with insulin‐dependent diabetes and hepatitis C cirrhosis with multiple variceal bandings presented with progressive right‐sided weakness had been seen at an outside hospital 6 months prior to admission, where ring‐enhancing lesions in the left frontal lobe were noted on CT and MRI. CSF and serum analyses for toxoplasmosis and a […]

Case Presentation: A 28‐year‐old previously healthy Hispanic man presented for evaluation of bleeding gums and rash. Four days prior he noted mild fatigue, cough, headache, and subjective fever consistent with an upper respiratory tract infection. On presentation, vital signs were stable, and physical exam revealed petechial hemorrhages on the soft palate with bleeding gums (wet […]

Background: POCUS is increasingly being used across medical specialties, and adds value to diagnostic accuracy for numerous pathologies and levels of acuity. Emergency Medicine providers were early adapters, providing examples of how POCUS increases patient satisfaction and diagnostic clarity (1, 2). Internal Medicine and Family Medicine have been slower to adopt this technology; however, general […]