Dr. Erin Cathcart is an associate professor and family medicine physician at UMass, where she practices both full scope primary care as well as inpatient adult medicine. She completed her medical school and residency training at Penn State College of Medicine. She is a graduate of the UMass Junior Faculty Development Program with a 12-month project focused on building a POCUS program for the Department of Family and Community Medicine centered on resident education, faculty development, and clinical integration. She later completed the STFM POCUS Educator Certificate Program as part of its inaugural class. She currently serves as POCUS Director for the UMass Department of Family and Community Medicine as well as Co-chair of the STFM POCUS Collaborative. She is a prior recipient of the UMass Department of Family and Community Medicine Educator of the Year Award as well as Worcester Family Medicine Residency Inpatient Educator of the Year.<\/p>\n
Dr. Cathcart is passionate about expanding POCUS in Family Medicine through education and research. Locally, she leads resident didactics and electives as well as departmental faculty development sessions. She also serves as Co-Director of an interdisciplinary POCUS training course for clinicians through the UMass Interprofessional Center for Experiential Learning & Simulation (iCELS) program. She has given presentations at UMass Grand Rounds and STFM on her institution\u2019s strategies for building a POCUS program and is actively involved in several primary care POCUS research projects.<\/p>\n
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