Riverside Community Hospital

Our fellowship program training is based at Riverside Community Hospital (RCH), one of the highest volume emergency departments among California academic medicine centers and teaching hospitals with >100,000 adult and >20,000 pediatric patient visits a year. We are a level 1 trauma center, interventional stroke and STEMI receiving center that is home to a 3 year EM residency. Our one-year fellowship program is accredited by EUFAC through 2025. Fellows will join the Vituity partnership, and receive Health Science academic appointment with the University of California Riverside School of Medicine.

The fellowship is available to graduates of ACGME-accredited Emergency Medicine residency programs who are board certified or board-eligible. We also accept graduates of Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, and other residency programs. NRMP applications for the 2024-2025 academic year open August 16.

2022

Department of Emergency Medicine

4 emergency ultrasound fellowship trained faculty

Eva Tovar Hirashima, MD, MPH, AEMUS-FPD
Ultrasound Fellowship Director
Residency: Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency
Fellowship: University of Maryland
Interests: Border Health, EMS, FOAMed

Nhu-Nguyen Le, MD
Residency: Los Angeles County/University of Southern California
Fellowship: Denver Health
Interests: Medical education

Sirivalli Chamarti, MD
Residency: Maimonides Medical Center
Fellowship: Columbia University
Interests: Medical education

Lucas Friedman, MD, M.Ed., AEMUS-FPD
Ultrasound Division Director
UC-Riverside SOM Ultrasound Director
Vituity Ultrasound Education Co-Director
Residency: University of Arizona
Fellowship: University of Arizona
Interests: Pediatrics, Medical education

Our fellowship program fosters the develop of a portfolio that includes:

1. POCUS mastery through image acquisition, interpretation, and clinical integration.
2. Educational design and instruction innovation.
3. Administrative expertise.
4. Scholarly activity.

POCUS mastery:
Acquisition: Ultrasound fellows are expected to complete 1000 scans throughout their fellowship. In addition to hands on scanning with ultrasound faculty, additional perspective from other medical specialties, and advanced ultrasound simulation equipment (e.g. TEE Simbionix and Transvaginal ScanTrainer) is integrated into the fellowship curriculum.

Interpretation: These scans are archived in Qpath-E for review and interpretation with ultrasound faculty on a weekly basis.

Clinical Integration: Our fellows will be practicing in a high-acuity, high-volume emergency department with complex pathology. Combined with a critical examination of the EBM, fellows learn to employ POCUS to impact their patient care.

Educational Innovation: Fellows both teach ultrasound at the bedside and didactics to other attending physicians, residents, and medical students. We provided additional opportunities to participate in local, regional, national and international ultrasound courses. This allows fellows to learn how to develop and implement ultrasound curriculum to different levels of learners, as well as the pedagogy of a seminar to a longitudinal curriculum, including gamification learning through our regional ultrasound games.

Administrative Expertise: Ultrasound workflow, equipment procurement, QA, credentialing, billing, policy development, and accreditation.

Scholarly: Research project development and implementation, as well as FOAM and other scholarly collaborations.

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Competitive salary and benefits
Wireless image transfer & Qpath-E archival system
POCUS privileges
PACS archiving for billed POCUS exams