Paper Title
An Overview of the First-Year Undergraduate Medical Students’ Feedback on the Point of Care Ultrasound Curriculum

Abstract
With the technological progress of different types of portable ultrasound machines, there is a growing demand by all healthcare providers to perform Bedside Ultrasonography, also known as Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS). This technique is becoming extremely useful as part of the Clinical Skills/Anatomy teaching in the undergraduate Medical School Curriculum. Teaching/training healthcare providers how to use these portable ultrasound machines can complement their physical examination findings and help produce a more accurate diagnosis, which leads to a faster and better improvement in patient outcomes. In addition, using portable ultrasound machines can add more safety measurements to every therapeutic/diagnostic procedure when it is done under an ultrasound guide. It is also considered an extra tool in teaching Clinical Anatomy to Undergraduate Medical students. Ultrasound is one of the many different imaging modalities that healthcare providers depend on to reach their diagnosis, while also being the least invasive method. We believe investing in training the Undergraduate Medical students on the basic ultrasound scanning skills as part of their first-year curriculum will help build up the foundation for their future career. The research we report in this manuscript is a preliminary qualitative study, and provides a template for future model for teaching a hand on Ultrasound for all health care providers in different learning institutions. A questionnaire was handed to the first-year undergraduate medical students to evaluate their hands-on ultrasound session experience. Answers were collected and data was analyzed into multiple graphs. Keywords - Education, Integration, Medical Students, Ultrasound