Josh Guttman
@drjgutt
Emergency Physician and POCUS enthusiast. Founder of Peachtree POCUS Consulting @PeachtreePOCUS
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AI image acquisition technology breaks down some of the faculty bottleneck
1️⃣ The Training Gap:View quoted post on X
• 35% of IM programs have a formal POCUS curriculum.
• 23% of Nephrology Fellowships have one.
2️⃣ The Barrier:
It’s not a lack of interest—trainees want this.
The bottleneck? Faculty. 🛑
There’s a critical shortage of #pocus trained instructors.
This doesn’t help toxicity in medicine and just creates more friction between specialities. As an emergency doctor I work just as hard as everyone else. We all work hard. Our jobs are difficult for different reasons. This is not a competition.
I’m telling you ER doctors work harder than all the other specialties BY FARView quoted post on X
No one else could do this work like we do.
We crank and go and crank and go.
A patient had pus coming out of a skin lesion:
Resident: “likely infected”
Likely?
It’s infected!
I feel like in medicine today residents are taught to hedge too much.
Rant over.
Resident: “likely infected”
Likely?
It’s infected!
I feel like in medicine today residents are taught to hedge too much.
Rant over.