A POCUS curriculum built around the review loop.
EASy gives residency programs, fellowships, and POCUS committees a structured entry pathway: reliable acquisition first, supervised interpretation second, reproducible decisions as the endpoint.
Every program is asked to teach point-of-care ultrasound; few are resourced to supervise it. The recognized hazard in POCUS has never been too few views — it's been too little oversight. Curricula that end at image acquisition graduate learners who can scan but not decide, and leave faculty with no visibility into either.
Scaling the traditional multi-window curriculum across an entire residency class means most learners plateau at partial competence. A deliberately bounded exam changes the math: one window a novice can genuinely master, explicit limits on what it answers, and every examination feeding a review loop with an experienced physician.
Acquire. Phenotype. Act.
Structured entry
Learners start with the subcostal-first exam — a bounded skill a novice can realistically acquire — instead of a multi-window curriculum most will never finish. Focused day-one training targets acquisition, not independent interpretation.
Supervised interpretation
Every image is saved and reviewed with an experienced physician. The curriculum is built around that loop — submission, structured rating, feedback — rather than around unsupervised practice.
Competency, longitudinally
EASy is a longitudinal competency pathway, not a one-day claim of independent practice. It names what the exam answers, what it can't, and when learners must escalate to fuller imaging.
What the curriculum includes
Self-paced modules & drills
The views, the phenotypes, and the pathways — with acquisition, quality, and phenotype drills for spaced repetition.
ExploreClinical scenario library
Real, de-identified cases for supervised interpretation practice and group review.
ExploreLive courses & train-the-trainer
Hands-on workshops that seed local instructors, so the program sustains itself.
ExploreAverage examination time for novice sonographers in the published comparison. A protocol that costs a quarter of the time gets repeated when the patient changes.
Fiorini & Basmaji, Can J Anaesth 2022After one day of focused training, novice residents obtained images sufficient for supervised clinical decision-making in 87% of 63 examinations — averaging 4.3 minutes each. Day one is about acquisition; interpretation stays supervised.
Crit Care Explor 2024Take it to the bedside
Evidence & independent review
The published studies, the editorial commentary, and the stated limitations — cited inline.
OpenFree bedside cards
Print-ready references your learners can keep on every machine.
OpenFree weekly scenario
A no-login teaching case for morning report, rotating every Monday.
OpenTalk to us
Bringing EASy to an institution starts with a conversation about your learners.
OpenTrain your team to read the unstable patient
Live, case-based courses for clinicians at every level — and a supervised pathway for programs building a POCUS curriculum.
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