Point of Care Ultrasonography Enhanced Physical Examination: A Nephrologist’s Perspective

Point-of-care ultrasonography (POCUS) is intended to answer focused clinical questions at the bedside and is rapidly emerging as an ‘enhancement’ to physical examination in various specialties. Interestingly, several medical schools have incorporated POCUS training into their curricula in the recent past, and the general internal medicine community is starting to catch up with this advancement.1 In this context, subspecialties including nephrology will soon face the situation where trainees are more skilled in POCUS than their supervising physicians, potentially creating confusion in the clinical decision-making process.