Clinical Scholars-POCUS Program (CSP-POCUS) is a two-year professional development program for early career faculty, to develop essential academic skills and jumpstart a successful career as an academic hospitalist and establish a niche in POCUS.
This program provides intensive mentorship and skills training in medical education, bedside teaching, POCUS, medical ethics, quality improvement methodology, evidence-based decision making and leadership. It also provides academic mentorship for developing scholarship. In addition to developing expertise in diagnostic POCUS and procedures, participants are mentored in POCUS teaching, curriculum development, and POCUS scholarship to become national leaders in POCUS .
Program Overview
The Clinical Scholars Program consists of a foundational curriculum in the first half of the year and longitudinal peer coaching and group mentoring components throughout the first year.
The curriculum develops skills in foundational areas of academic medicine—clinical teaching, clinical epidemiology and advanced evidence-based medicine, clinical reasoning, quality improvement and patient safety, research methods and academic writing, ethics and humanism, leadership, point-of-care ultrasound, and artificial intelligence.
The program also offers longitudinal peer coaching and group peer mentoring to foster selfreflection, strengths identification, values clarification, career planning, goal-setting, and feedback for deliberate practice and development of expertise. During the second half of the year, scholars identify an academic focus, assemble a mentoring team, and develop a scholarly project. In their second year, scholars will be supported by peers and program directors to execute their scholarly project and create scholarship (including the option to participate in a 12-week scholarly writing course).
We are starting to recruit for 2026-2027 and applicants can apply here.
To learn more about the highlights of the program, read more here.
Program Director
Justin Choi, M.D., Co-Director