Table 1.

Published POCUS Training Programs in Sub-Saharan African Countries

Study	Location, Year	POCUS Curriculum Topics	Training Length	Instructors: Local vs Visiting	Audience
Jones (11)	Kenya, 2020	eFAST, cardiac, lung, DVT, OBGYN, renal, liver, spleen, aorta, soft tissue	3 days	Visiting	39 family medicine physicians and registrars
Henwood (6)	Rwanda, 2017	Cardiac, abdominal, lung, OBGYN, spleen, liver, biliary, renal, soft tissue	10 days	Local and visiting	15 staff physicians
Denny (12)	Tanzania, 2018	FAST, cardiac, abdominal, MSK, Lung, OBGYN	4 weeks	Visiting	229 students, practicing healthcare professionals, school employees
Tafoya (13)	Ghana, 2017	Lung, cardiac, IVC, abdominal, aorta, DVT	10 days	Visiting	18 EM residents 2 EM staff physicians
Shaffer (14)	Tanzania, 2017	FAST, cardiac, lung	5 days	Local and visiting	8 registrar physicians
Reynolds (15)	Tanzania, 2016	FAST, lung, cardiac, gallbladder, aorta, OBGYN	16 days	Visiting	14 registrar physicians
Bell (16)	Kenya, 2016	FAST, lung, OBGYN	3 days	Visiting	81 clinical officers, doctors, nurses, radiographers, lab technicians
Stolz (7)	Uganda, 2015	FAST, cardiac, gallbladder, renal, soft tissue, lung, aorta, IVC, OBGYN, abdominal, procedural, DVT	Integrated 2- year program	Local and visiting	Nurses
Douglass (5)	Rwanda 2013	Not recorded	10 days	Not recorded	10 staff physicians
Adler (17)	Tanzania, 2008	FAST, aorta, hepatobiliary, OBGYN, procedural, soft tissue, renal	4 days	Visiting	4 physicians, 6 clinical officers
Shah (18)	Rwanda, 2015	OBGYN, abdominal, renal, hepatobiliary, cardiac, pleural, vascular, procedural	9 weeks	Visiting	Staff physicians

eFAST: extended focused assessment with sonography in trauma, DVT: deep venous thrombosis, OBGYN: obstetrical and gynecological, MSK: musculocutaneous, IVC: inferior vena cava, EM: emergency medicine, FAST: focused assessment with sonography in trauma