The Dalhousie University (DU) Emergency Point of Care Ultrasound Elective and Fellowship Program at Saint John Regional Hospital (SJRH) with an optional up to 1 month placement in Pediatric PoCUS at the IWK Health Centre Pediatric Emergency Department
There are four primary components to the mini-fellowship and fellowship programs:
- Clinical: optimizing image acquisition and interpretation skills for both core and advanced emergency and point of care ultrasound applications
- Education: developing lecturing and teaching skills by developing an emergency ultrasound lecture portfolio and contributing to the program’s educational mission. Acquiring expertise at bedside ultrasound teaching and assessment.
- Administration: understanding the critical components required to run an emergency ultrasound program, set up and deliver educational events/courses and how to best utilize information technologies for image archiving, database management, and quality assurance.
- Research: understanding the state of emergency ultrasound research by participating in ultrasound journal club activities and developing an independent research project from its inception to publication.