Using the most current evidence and principles, we teach medical professionals how to maximize their abilities with an ultrasound machine so that they can bring these skills to the patient’s bedside.
We offer in-person and online courses taught live and on-demand that will allow your team to learn skills for key applications. Then, we build off of those courses to help provide long-term education and growth.
UltraSound Central is a platform to provide proficiency in various ultrasound modalities remotely. Our highly interactive courses are designed by world-renowned experts and offer integrated knowledge and workflow understanding in various ultrasound techniques.
Our Mission at POCUS 101 is simple: to create User-Centered Content that allows YOU to start using Point of Care Ultrasound right away! As creators of POCUS 101, we are fellowship-trained in Point of Care Ultrasound and have taught thousands of students from all backgrounds including medical students, nurses, and physicians from all specialties. After teaching so many types of learners we started seeing common themes on the best ways to teach Point of Care Ultrasound and would like to share them with you at POCUS 101.
Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) is a remarkable tool that clinicians can use to augment their physical exam and improve patient care. With POCUS you can look inside the body after you examine the outside. You can develop autonomy and come to a diagnosis in minutes that would take up to a day without it. With POCUS, you can save lives.
Our friends down under at Zedu Ultrasound Training Solutions have built a comprehensive library of free ebooks that are available. If you’re looking for some deeper dives on a range of POCUS topics, this is your one-stop shop.
If you’re looking for performance standards on a number of common POCUS exams, AIUM led a committee comprised of SHM, ACCP, SCCM, and SPOCUS to standardize POCUS exam performance.
An outstanding resource with online EUS core curriculum for various levels of learner, cases, journal club, literature etc.
A fun, interactive, patient-centered and case-based game providing instruction on the indications, technique, and interpretation of various POCUS applications, from leading POCUS expert, Dr. Laleh Gharahbaghian and team at Stanford Med. CME available for those eligible too!
Great case-based scenarios and assessment tools, complete with images and clips that serve educators well in quickly assessing practical POCUS knowledge
From Dr. Davinder Ramsingh and colleagues, this site is focused on preoperative POCUS but includes content relevant across multiple POCUS realms, and is filled with presentations, pre- and post-course knowledge assessments, and even a free e-book! A great FOAM-US site for anyone looking to expand their POCUS skills!
Grepmed is a crowdsourced medical image site which has a huge POCUS image library. If you’re looking for sonographic pathology or putting together a presentation, this is a great website to visit.
“Every Great Journey Begins With The First Step”
This is a great video from Dr. Dawson of UltrasoundPodcast.com of a peripheral IV insersion. If you have never used ultrasound before and are looking to start, this is a great place to begin.
From Dr. Geoffery Hayden at EmergencyUltrasoundTeaching.com. Scroll down to “Vascular Access.”
A crowdsourced page led by some POCUS heavy hitters. Images and videos of cool cases with quick #POCUS pearls. Use, contribute, and everyone wins!
This is “the free good stuff”. The creamy delicious Oreo double stuff filling, the Russel Stover chocolate with the caramel inside…. a free ebook/text book written by Drs. Mallin and Dawson with embedded video clips, pictures, anatomy scanning techniques tips and pitfalls . If you need some introductory reading this will get you get you started. They only ask that you pay it forward, spread the FOAM, and just maybe if you like what they do give them a high five on iTunes rating.
Dr. Geoffery Hayden of the Medical University of South Carolina build this site and was generous enough to share it with the FOAMed world. If you are a preceptor hosting a PA/Medical/NP student doing a month long clinical Ultrasound rotation this is the site for you. This site allows you, the preceptor to “flip the class”. Didactic content is consumed by the Young Grasshopper prior to arrival to maximize scan time during the rotation. This site also contains links to other great content like how to videos on loop drainage, trigger point injections, cervical injections, radiology criteria, and a ton of other content. Grasshopper becomes the Master.
Dr. Hayden strikes gold again. Spoon fed Ultrasound learning for every emergency medicine core application. Narrated Lectures, Ultrasound Images, Videos, How to do it, Pediatric ultrasound, Ultrasound articles, Cases. He even has an Administrative page with links to Admin documents,3 Resources for workflow tutorials, best ultrasound apps. As if that weren’t enough billing templates for most every application along with the CPT codes. When you are done, test your knowledge.
Regional Anesthesia…..Physician Assistants this is a site that has particular significance for you. Painful procedures such as joint and fracture reduction often bring workflow to a screeching halt when we have to call for help with conscious sedation. How would you like to learn to reduce shoulders and fractures painlessly with out the need for sedation. Taught by Dr. Andrew Herring and his team of geniuses at Highland Hospital in Oakland CA. Highland’s videos and tutorials take you through the methods, indications, pitfalls and pearls on how to perform regional anesthesia, from start to finish… all free and FOAMed.
A free ebook/textbook for point-of-care ultrasound that includes images, clips, and narrated videos.
Chip Lange hosts this podcast that often features discussions about integrating POCUS into emergency medicine care.
Home of the Ultrasound Podcast, 5MinSono, Ultrasound of the Week, and more ultrasound tools than you can fit in your toolbox.
Ultrasound G.E.L is a podcast for learning about recent literature in the field of point-of-care ultrasound. Our goal is to provide easily digestible information from scientific studies that will help your practice of ultrasound be evidence based.
Created by Michael Prats, @PratsEM, Creagh Boulger, @CREAGHB, Jacob Avila, @ULTRASOUNDMD
From The CUS Crew at Cook County, this site has cases, curriculum, SDOTs, lectures, and a bevy of other resources to help you move from novice to ninja!
Dr. Christopher Hahn. Even if you aren’t interested in Ultrasound, the drawings, animations, rhymes and music will teach you something about medicine and critical care that you didn’t already know, and do it in a way which will make you remember it.
EGLS is the brain child of two French Canadian Intensivists with very cool sounding names. They are great teachers with the U/S fever whose explanations just sound more awesome with the French accents. As they put EGLS “is conceived to address shock and peri-arrest patients in an efficient and standardized manner.”
An excellent crowdsourced site with an abundance of US images for use in presentations and educational material. The recently-added evidence atlas distills down the literature that is vital in demonstrating the value of POCUS to students and new learners.
If you have clips to share with others for teaching or collaboration, check out SonoClipShare. thanks again to Dr. Ben Smith.
The AEUS Narrated Lecture Series is a free open-access medical education peer reviewed resource on how to perform clinical ultrasound. The project was initiated by Dr. Meghan Kelly Herbst, who serves as the project leader. Each lecture is written and narrated by an academy member and then peer-reviewed by Dr. Herbst, the AEUS president and the AEUS educational officer. We hope you find these lectures informative and useful!
Chris Foxx Lecture Series is Free on iTunes, these open access lectures are guaranteed help you learn something new no matter what your experience level. Dr. Foxx is one of the faces of POCUS due to his terrific lectures, passion for ultrasound and dedication to getting ultrasound into the hands of our newest generation of physicians. He is the driving force in the UC Irvine Medical Schools integrated Curriculum
SonoSpot is a place where the interesting, funny, cool and geeky meet to share their tips/tricks/knowledge of and adventures with bedside focused EM ultrasound. A place to highlight cases, applications and prominent people in bedside US education and research. SonoSpot is the creation of Dr. Laleh Gharahbaghian, US Director: Stanford University, Emergency Medicine. Twitter: @Sonospot and “Like” us on Facebook @BedsideUltrasound
Check out the entirely FOAMed-based, self-study ultrasound curriculum. It’s a collection of all the best FOAMed ultrasound resources in one place, organized into individual modules by scan category! This is FOAMed education from the top educators in ultrasound and who doesn’t want to learn from the best
If you want to learn bedside echocardiography this is hands down the coolest sites on the internet and it will make your experience much easier to learn. This is online interactive module to assist with teaching and learning the assessment of cardiac function with FOCUS. Users can view the TTE recordings for each of the 5 FOCUS views and see a corresponding 3D heart model, ultrasound probe, and ultrasound plane for the Parasternal short and long axis, Apical four chamber, Subcostal four chamber, and the Subcostal inferior vena cava. This site answers the mystery of what plane you are looking in and how it corresponds to the anatomical site.
Dr. Phil Perera teamed up with SonoSite to create this series of excellent teaching videos. Dr. Perera hails from Stanford and has much in common with Dr. Gharahbaghian, creator of SonoSpot. These videos are concise, quick to the point, and highly educational. They cover the anatomy, pitfalls, pearls and a down and dirty of how to quickly perform your scan. They are also often accompanied by great graphics to help you better learn the material being covered.
SPOCUS, as a society, places the well being or our patients before any other consideration. However, we recognize that a well run clinical ultrasound program depends fair reimbursement to be economically viable. While SPOCUS does not endorse any ultrasound manufacturers or have relationships with industry or pharma, we do appreciate FOAMed and are quick to thank anyone in the business world that helps us provide better care for our patients. SonoSite has created an excellent site to educate providers with coding and reimbursement information, and you don’t have to own a SonoSite machine to take advantage of the learning.
The University of South Caroline School of Medicine has developed an extensive ultrasound training program with the intent of providing a series of educational programs for its medical students, medical residents, and practicing physicians in primary care from around the state, the Southeast, and globally.
From UF Nephrology, this series of youtube videos is dedicated to all things kidney-related!
GastricUltrasound.org is a point-of-care tool for aspiration risk assessment. It can determine the nature of the content (empty, clear fluid, thick fluid / solid) and when clear fluid is present, its volume can be estimated.
Looking for a way to log your scans to demonstrate competency? EchoLog allows you to log your scans by type and produce a transportable record of your scans, allowing clinicians to document their competency and allowing for portability of documentation.
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