Emergency Medicine Ultrasound

 

Penn Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship Program

The Penn Ultrasound Division has been training fellows since 2003. Fellows train at five very diverse sites.

The goals of EUS fellowship training are at least threefold. 

Didactic: Clinicians need to be highly skilled educators of point-of-care ultrasound.

Scientific: Cutting-edge research is needed to guide our progress forward. 

Leadership:  Develop leaders with special expertise to teach and oversee the administrative aspects of this new technology. Gain familiarity with the administrative and political issues of point-of-care ultrasound

 

Diverse ultrasound faculty with interests in:

  • Resuscitative TEE

  • Regional Anesthesia

  • Ultrasound in Critical Care 

  • Global Health

  • Medical Education

  • Integration of hand-held ultrasound in multi-specialty, health system-wide practice

Education

Christy Moore Teaching

  • Weekly ultrasound conferences with didactic and video review

  • One weekly eight-hour scan shift with ultrasound faculty

  • Christy Moore, our dedicated sonographer educator, provides one-on-one scan training with fellows

  • ED-Based Multidisciplinary Trans-esophageal Echocardiography Program

  •  2-year fellowship option for Emergency Medicine Fellows

    • Includes enrollment in a Master's program at Penn

      • Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology

      •  Master's in Public Health 

      • Master's in Health Policy

      • Master's in Medical Education

      • Any one of the numerous specialty degrees offered at Penn.

Those interested in either the one-year or two-year ultrasonography fellowship at Penn should apply at the Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship website   

Fellowship Curriculum

  • Two clinical shifts per week

  • Weekly Ultrasound Interdisciplinary Review Sessions with monthly Pediatric Emergency Medicine conferences

    • Weekly lectures by ultrasound faculty

    • Hands-on scanning and simulation sessions for advanced scans and ultrasound-guided procedures

    • Fellows are given learning materials weekly to supplement the topic of the week

  • ED-Based Multidisciplinary Transesophageal Echocardiography Program

  • Ultrasound-guided nerve block protocols for all patients with hip fractures and rib fractures

Fellows have multiple opportunities to teach ultrasound skills:

  • Division lead medical student ultrasound course

  • Residents ultrasound rotation

  • Annual US Courses for Critical Care fellows, Trauma fellows, Peds EM and Critical Care faculty

  • Division run Global Health Ultrasound Day

  • Fellows lead annual US courses for Critical Care fellows, Trauma fellows, EM attendings, Peds EM, and Critical Care faculty

Research

  • Faculty have published extensively

  • Fellows are expected to initiate at least one research project from inception, IRB application, data collection, to abstract and manuscript  writing.

  • Fellows are encouraged to apply for grant funding, and have access  to Penn faculty resources and experience to assist in their endeavors.

  • Prior research by fellows includes: 

    • US in the examination of the  patient with undifferentiated dyspnea

    • Complications of 1st trimester  pregnancy 

    • Carotid intamedia thickness as a marker for CAD

    • US assessment of soft tissue foreign bodies

    • Ultrasound in triage

    • US in nephrolithiasis (NIH funded)

    • US-guided IV access versus IO access (funded).

  • Statistician present at weekly research meetings

  • Research coordinator to help move projects along