Table 1.

Medical students’ attitudes toward physical examination and point-of-care ultrasound at King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences (KSAU-HS), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Statement	Likert scale response
	Strongly disagree N (%)	Disagree N (%)	Neutral N (%)	Agree N (%)	Strongly agree N (%)
Physical examination skills are relevant to medical students	2 (0.9)	1 (0.4)	18 (7.9)	55 (24.0)	153 (66.8)
Learning PoCUS would augment physical exam skills	2 (0.9)	21 (9.2)	56 (24.5)	78 (34.1)	72 (31.4)
Learning clinical applications of PoCUS would be beneficial	0	1 (0.4)	9 (3.9)	99 (43.2)	120 (52.4)
Learning PoCUS is more important than learning physical examination	70 (30.6)	88 (38.4)	44 (19.2)	10 (4.4)	17 (7.4)
US guidance of procedures would improve patient safety	0	6 (2.6)	27 (11.8)	68 (29.7)	128 (55.9)
Lack of access to US services out of hours (whether radiology- or physician-led) may compromise patient care?	2 (0.9)	4 (1.7)	47 (20.5)	121 (52.8)	55 (24.0)

PoCUS: Point-of-care ultrasound, US: Ultrasound