SESSION TITLE: Education SESSION TYPE: Original Investigation Slide PRESENTED ON: Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 02:45 PM - 04:15 PM PURPOSE: Point-of-care ultrasonography has rapidly become a necessary skillset for clinicians caring for critically ill patients. Fellows, residents, and medical students are increasingly being taught how to perform and understand bedside ultrasound (US). Faculty sufficiently competent in critical care ultrasonography to supervise and teach these learners, however, are lacking. Moreover, many faculty feel left behind by the emergence of this modality. We developed a 1-day course specifically tailored to critical care faculty without extensive ultrasound experience in order to develop baseline competence and foster confidence in fundamental critical care ultrasound examinations. METHODS: All faculty learners completed pre- and post-course surveys recording learner characteristics, confidence on a 5-point Likert scale for performing specific US exams and identifying relevant pathology, effectiveness of specific components of the course, and desires for future US training. All faculty learners also completed pre- and post-tests regarding US knowledge and image interpretation. Prerequisite reading materials were provided prior to the course. The course was a combination of didactic lectures (Introduction to US, US for Vascular Access, Lung/Pleural US, Abdominal US, focused TTE, and DVT study) with 5 hours of hands-on small group sessions with expert faculty in our simulation center using standardized patients and task trainers. RESULTS: Eleven critical care faculty learners completed the course. The majority (54%) had ≥15 years of Attending experience, with 64% having had no prior US training. Mean pre-test score was 58±17% and mean post-test score was 73±14% for the group, p=0.006. Faculty learners felt more confident in using ultrasound in performance of procedures and diagnostic examinations after the course (catheter placement, thoracentesis, paracentesis, DVT study, TTE, FAST exam; all p<0.05), and felt more confident in identifying pathology on US after the course (IVC respiratory variation, severe valvular regurgitation, pericardial effusion, hypo/hyper-dynamic left ventricle, loculated pleural effusion, pneumothorax, hydronephrosis, and ascites; all p<0.05). Faculty learners were very interested in future US-based faculty development, especially US for Acute Respiratory Failure and US for Acute Shock. CONCLUSIONS: A 1-day course for critical care faculty with limited ultrasound experience was well received and resulted in tangible improvements in knowledge and image interpretation while increasing confidence performing basic critical care ultrasound examinations/procedures and identifying relevant pathology on ultrasound imaging. CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS: Critical care faculty with limited prior ultrasound experience can learn and improve their ultrasound knowledge, image acquisition, and image interpretation via a short course targeting this learner group. DISCLOSURE: The following authors have nothing to disclose: Deepak Pradhan, Bishoy Zakhary, Vikramjit Mukherjee, Harald Sauthoff No Product/Research Disclosure Information