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in acute evaluation," Brumfield says, mentioning emergency and sports medicine as adoptees while noting its use and training have grown in other specialties, such as family medicine. It's a tool beneficial to rural practices where specialists are not nearby, and family medicine doctors must make the not-so-small decision to send patients away from home for specialty care. POCUS is part of the medical school curriculum, with students learning to use the equipment and interpret results in the Simulation Center as part of seven required sessions in their first two years. The Department of Family & Community Medicine has embraced the technology and supported a POCUS Interest Group for students. Residents, too, use the equipment for training sessions, and each internal medicine resident has ready access to a portable probe. When the Wichita Biomedical Campus opens, though, POCUS training will have a home of its own in the Standardized Patient Center, with one room dedicated to examining standardized patients and a second with an advanced manikin that simulates multiple conditions. With the new space will come additional opportunities for learning and collaboration with trainees from other health programs. With the new campus opening in 2027, details of what collaboration looks like are developing, but Brumfield envisions the possibilities. Physician associates and nurse practitioners, "need this skill as much as any provider. So, we would want to make sure they had the ability to come up and avail themselves of the expertise. We should err on the side of making sure that we're making ourselves available to any of the learners in our community," says Brumfield, adding that "it's somewhat of a selfish act to be generous to others, because it always comes back to help you, too." 19