SPOCUS Purpose

To promote the safe and effective employment of clinical ultrasound by all clinicians across the healthcare spectrum, regardless of specialty, practice environment, or education level, to ultimately benefit our patients.

To promote and expand clinical ultrasound education and educational opportunities for practicing clinicians and promote the development and standardization of clinical ultrasound guidelines across all specialties and practice levels.

To promote clinical ultrasound education for students across the full spectrum of medical profession education, and advocate for early integration of ultrasound education with “day one curriculum ultrasound integration”

To provide roadmaps for clinicians of any practice level, setting, or education level in achieving POCUS credentialing

To develop centralized source for clinical ultrasound guidelines for documentation, training, and education.

To liaise and collaborate with groups such as ACEP, AMA, AAEM, AIUM, SAEM, AAFP, AAPA, and others to advocate for language within published guidelines which is supportive and inclusive of our members’ scope of practice in employing clinical ultrasound.

To promote the inclusion and interaction of groups of clinicians not traditionally  associated with ultrasound, to include clinicians in rural and remote medicine, underserved area medicine, disaster response, EMS, military, and tactical medicine, and good will medical mission settings.

To promote the concept that appropriately trained and prepared clinicians should be encouraged to become their medical facility’s Clinical Ultrasound Directory and become involved in their Ultrasound Continuous Quality Management Program. Active involvement promotes ownership, sustained improvement and self-determination.

To support further research exploring/validating all clinicians’ employment of clinical ultrasound as a safe evidence-based practice, and to support the development of other innovative ultrasound indications and education methods for clinicians to improve patient care.

To collaborate with industry in expanding access to ultrasound devices, expanding clinical ultrasound educational opportunities, and in developing ultrasound devices which simplify users’ ability to employ ultrasound and enhance patient access to high-quality care.