Table 2.

Final 22 Consensus-Based Recommended Education Indicators by the Canadian Internal Medicine Ultrasound (CIMUS) Group, by Category and Initial Indicator Number

Teaching
5	Total hours of faculty time spent
9	Estimated hours of didactic teaching on image interpretation
10	Estimated hours of didactic teaching on clinical decision/integration
11	Estimated hours of directly supervised hands-on scanning
12	For supervised scans sessions: teacher to learner ratio
14	For independent scanning, feedback mechanisms to learners in place
15	Estimated ratio of trained ultrasound faculty to learners
Learning environment and program organization
16	Number of dedicated machines accessible to the medical/clinical teaching unit
17	Number of dedicated machines accessible to the medical/clinical teaching unit at each distributed site
19	Has ultrasound program champion(s)
28	Has support from internal medicine residency program director
41	Learner policy in place regarding scope and use of ultrasound
42	Learner scan logs (tracking number of scans)
43	Program has in place suggested target number of scans for each application
Data management and quality assurance
33	Archiving system in place
34	Quality assurance system in place (images reviewed for quality assurance)
35	Program has minimal criteria in place for acceptable scans
37	Estimated percentage of learner scans reviewed by someone competent to do so
40	Mechanisms in place to deal with incidental findings
Assessment and program evaluation
49a	Point-of-care ultrasound program evaluation present
50	Assessment processes of image acquisition skills in place
51	Assessment processes of image interpretation in place