Curriculum

The advanced emergency medicine ultrasound fellowship curriculum is designed to train the fellow to effectively implement clinical ultrasound, also known as point-of-care ultrasound, into daily patient care, advance clinical ultrasound skills, and prepare them for clinical ultrasound leadership.

Fellow activities

The fellow will work eight clinical shifts per month as an attending physician. These shifts are split between our academic emergency department, Nebraska Medicine, and our community emergency department, Bellevue Medical Center. Internal moonlighting opportunities are also available.

The fellow's responsibilities will include:

• Supervising clinical care of patients in the emergency department.
• Teaching in intern orientation course.
• Teaching interns on ultrasound rotation.
• Teaching upper-level residents during ultrasound shifts.
• Teaching scan labs in the College of Medicine.

• Participating in our emergency ultrasound quality assurance program:
  • Image review of both clinical and educational scans.
  • Performs patient callbacks as needed.
  • Educates staff, residents and students on point-of-care ultrasound technical and interpretative skills.
• Participating in weekly fellow education day (4.5 hours weekly):
  • Scan labs, both on standardized and clinical patients.
  • Didactic lectures.
  • Image review.
  • Cadaver labs.
  • Simulation.
• Completing a minimum of 1,000 ultrasound examinations.
• Participating in on-going quality improvement projects.
• Participating in on-going scholarly activity.