Course towards Level 1 College of Emergency Medicine
Accreditation in USS Level 1 Accreditation and Beyond
6th London Emergency
Medicine Ultrasound Course
A practical course on the use of Ultrasound in the assessment of critically ill patients
designed for Acute Physicians, Anaesthetists, Intensivists and Emergency Physicians
organised in partnership with Infomed Research and Training,
on Monday 22 and Tuesday 23 June 2009, at The Centre for Postgraduate
Professional Education, Guy’s Hospital, St Thomas’ Street, London

The next Level 1 event will run on Tuesday 3 and Wednesday 4 November 2009,  
at Conference Centre, Russell Square House, 10-12 Russell Square, London

Programme Director:

• Dr Tim Harris BM BS BMed Sci Dip O&G Dip Imme Care FACEM FFAEM
  Consultant Emergency Physician, Royal London Hospital

Programme Advisors:

• Dr Tim Fotheringham MBBS FRCR FRCS, Consultant Radiologist, Royal London Hospital

• Dr Clare Bent, SpR in Radiology, Barts and the London NHS Trust, London

Course Objectives:

• Become competent in the basic skills required to achieve Level 1 accreditation in USS

• Learn how to set up the machines and USS knobology

• Become familiar with the physics of Ultrasound and the training and certification requirements in USS for EM

• Look into costs, choices and developing a USS business case

Course evaluation:

Please click on the image below to see the course feedback.
This evaluation is based upon 69% return of evaluation forms from 55 delegates:

 
Comments from Delegates

• Good balance of lectures and practical sessions. Pitched at correct level

• Very good introductory demos by Paul Atkinson. Hands on.

• Patients, clear lectures, CD-ROM with all presentations

• Extensive practical sessions, credible faculty

• Mixture of lectures and subsequent practical experience. Patients and health models. Small groups

• Experienced faculty, hands on sessions, clinical case discussed

• Good time keeping. Knobology. Very approachable lecturers

• Lectures followed by practice. Amount of scanners and approach

• Target teaching- practical sessions, basic- adequate information

• The lectures, practical and recap. Hands on in small groups. Patients and models on USS

• Small groups, plenty of practical training

• Broad range of topics, able to see patients with real problems. Approachable faculty

• The practical sessions were of adequate length of time. Patients with pathologies

• Plenty of practical sessions. Patients on PP so chance to see abnormalities

• Hands on , quality of lectures, good food, good speakers

• Cardiac imaging well caught. Excellent approachable trainers

• Echo views very informative. Vascular access very useful in critical practice

• Plenty of hands on practice, real patients, including level 2

• Opportunity to practice at breaks, vascular access phantom

• Extended practical sessions. Opportunities to practise. Topics on right level

What impact will this event have on your future?

• More skills for scanning. Will use myself consider auditing USS in department

• Shortly starting a post and lots of practical USS

• Hope to take level 2 course and use USs in my department

• Confidence in teaching trainees properly

• Improve my clinical practice, make me scan more

• I will be using USS more from now on

• Confidence to practice more and teach better

• It will help me a lot in EM for diagnosis cases

• Gained confidence on FAST scanning

• I can do level 1 USS properly

• Lots and lots and lots

• Definitely helpful information

• I will more confident using USS in diagnosing patients in an acute scenarios

• Better understanding

• Help me to develop chest USS service

• Develop competences, go for accreditation once ICS get their act together

• Incorporate USS in my daily practice

• More confident to explore world of US related to EM. Will try to get to Level 1

• More confidence in assessment trauma patients

• Use of US for all pleural/ perinatal drainage IV placement

Faculty from the past events include:

• Dr Romila Bahl, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, University College Hospital, London

• Dr Paul Atkinson, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge

• Dr Susan Rowe, Consultant Radiologist, Homerton University Hospital, London

• Dr Alistair Billington, Consultant in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, University Hospital Birmingham

• Dr Syed Masud, SpR in Emergency Medicine, Royal London Hospital

• Miss Nicola Drake, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, St Thomas' Hospital, London

• Ms Leisha de Cruz, Ultrasonographer, Royal London Hospital

• Ms Jude Driver, Clinical Ultrasound Manager, Homerton University Hospital, London

• Mr Mark Russell, Clinical Lead Sonographer, Homerton University Hospital, London

About the Course:

• Gives you an Introduction to Emergency USS based on CEM Curriculum – Emergency Medicine Ultrasound (EMUS)

• Takes you beyond Level 1

• Is suitable for Consultants, Middle Grades, Registrars and SHOs

• Includes interactive, focused lectures, with extensive use of
  real-life screenshots and video clips

• Features immediate post-lecture Practical Sessions with live
  demos with models and patients (condition allowing)

• Offers an opportunity for delegates to practice on a variety
  of widely used and state-of-the-art machines

• Provides each delegate with a USS logbook – your training
  file plus a course folder and CD-ROM with copies of the
  lecture slides and information about Level 1 requirements

Learn and practice USS techniques:

• FAST and Pneumothorax

• AAA

• Peri-Arrest Scenarios

• Vascular Access

• Pleural and pericardial fluid

• Practice beyond Level 1:

  • Gall Bladder and Renal USS

  • Soft Tissue USS and DVT

  • Gynaecological USS

   

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