Point-of-Care Ultrasound

Workshops: Utilize a flipped-classroom approach to maximize hands on scanning time.  Workshops integrate the use of live-models, high fidelity simulation, and multi-media didactics. 

• Introductory Boot Camp: Day-long intensive training during intern orientation to learn about the fundamentals of sonography, cardiac ultrasound, and lung/pleural ultrasound.
• Procedure-based Workshop: Half-day workshop that fully integrates POCUS in performing common bedside procedures, including central venous catheterization, paracentesis, thoracentesis, lumbar puncture, and knee arthrocentesis.
• Abdominal Workshop: Half-day workshop in collaboration with the Diagnostic Medial Sonography program in the College of Allied Health. Residents will learn basics of abdominal POCUS, including kidney, bladder, gallbladder, liver, and spleen.

Interactive lectures:  Monthly lectures on an array of POCUS topics supplement skills introduced in the workshops.  Didactic formats include image review, interpretation practice, and hands-on scanning.  

Interest Group: Residents who want to further their skills can participate in our monthly POCUS interest group.   This group provides additional hands-on training, journal club discussion, and research opportunities.

Mini-rotation: As part of the Hospitalist Rotation, residents are assigned to a 1-week POCUS/procedure mini-rotation.  The experience includes a mix of self-directed learning modules, simulation cases, one-on-one scanning with a faculty member, and completion of common bedside procedures (paracentesis, thoracentesis).