Program Description

Type of Program
We are currently offering 1-year and 2-year fellowship slots. The 1-year fellowship is aimed at mastery in the practice, teaching, research, and administration of Emergency Ultrasonography. The 2-year fellowship will, in addition, include class-room courses with the highly regarded Masters Program at the University's Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics culminating in a certificate recognizing the completion of advanced research training (http://www.cceb.upenn.edu/education/non-degree/certificate.php). The second year of the 2-year fellowship will involve a more supervisory and administrative role with teaching of students, residents and the first-year fellow, as well as involvement in QA and other administrative activities.

Year Fellowship Started: 2004

Ultrasound Program Status
Division of Ultrasonography within the Department of Emergency Medicine

Number of Ultrasound Faculty: 2

Notable Faculty
Anthony J. Dean, MD
Nova L. Panebianco, MD

Ultrasound Fellowship Education
The fellows are supervised in their weekly scanning shifts by the ultrasound faculty. The Ultrasound Division meets weekly for video review sessions. These sessions include didactic lectures and hands-on skill sessions for medical students, rotating residents, interested faculty, and critical care fellows who also receive their bedside ultrasound training through our program. During the first half of the year, the video review sessions often include lecture time on EUS topics given by fellows and faculty. During the second half of the year, time is set aside on Tuesdays for discussion of research projects and literature review.

Based on the philosophy that “one learns by teaching”, fellows are encouraged to become involved in the Ultrasound Division’s various mentorship commitments. We give lectures (several hours per month) to medical students. We are responsible for introductory lectures and hands-on sessions in the anatomy course of the 1st year medical students. The Division also holds an introductory one-day course for the renal and critical care fellows in procedural uses of bedside ultrasonography, as well as a one-day course in the use of bedside ultrasonography in the critically ill. Fellows lecture and proctor hands-on sessions in all of these venues. The ultrasound director attends these sessions to provide guidance and feed-back.

Fellows are mentored by the Director in all aspects of research, and have access to the extensive resources and experience in clinical research with our Department.

Do you bill for ultrasounds? Yes

Do you require follow up imaging for patients who get ultrasounds? Only for faculty in the practice training track.

We have restricted and unrestricted privilege categories. Faculty members with restricted privileges in specific applications do not need follow up studies in those applications. Faculty members with unrestricted privileges get follow up imaging studies as and when they think they are clinically indicated.