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Prisma Health Midlands/University of South Carolina

Program Description

Type of Program

Point-of-care Ultrasound Training for Internal Medicine and Family Medicine

Year Fellowship Started

2011

Ultrasound Program Status

Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine and Department of Family Medicine

Number of Ultrasound Faculty

Notable Faculty

Keith Barron, MD
Paul Bornemann, MD
Richard Hoppmann, MD

Ultrasound Fellowship Education

The IM/FM Ultrasound Fellowship at Prisma Health Midlands is a year-long training program in point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) for physicians interested in learning and teaching the acquisition, interpretation, and application of medical ultrasound technology at the point-of-care. Fellows receive:
• POCUS training from national leaders from various specialties and subspecialties in a range of clinical settings spanning ambulatory, hospitalist, and critical care medicine
• Access to state-of-the-art ultrasound equipment (including a variety of handheld ultrasound units), ultrasound learning material, and ultrasound simulation
• Career mentorship, faculty development training, and networking opportunities with other national POCUS leaders
• Competitive compensation and benefits, academic mentorship, and training in education and research

In general, the fellowship accepts 1-2 fellows per academic year for an internal medicine POCUS track, and 1 fellow per year for the FM track.

Do you bill for ultrasounds?

Yes

Do you require follow up imaging for patients who get ultrasounds?

Other Information

Our fellowship is a unique training experience operated within the IM/FM departments, separate from the emergency ultrasound program, open to graduates of internal medicine, medicine-pediatrics, and family medicine residency programs who desire to become leaders in ultrasound education and practice.

POCUS is rapidly gaining acceptance as an important teaching and clinical practice tool across many topics and specialties. The future is very bright for academicians with expertise in ultrasound – teaching, practice, research, grants, publications, and leadership roles regionally, nationally, and globally.

Prisma Health Midlands, in conjunction with The University of South Carolina School of Medicine (USCSOM) Ultrasound Institute (USI), has been a national leader in the integration of ultrasound in medical education and the development of clinical applications of ultrasound since 2005. After the USI was founded, in 2007 the USCSOM became the first medical school in the country to teach ultrasound skills across all four years of undergraduate training. As education expanded from medical students, The Primary Care Ultrasound Fellowship was started in 2011, the first non-Emergency-Medicine POCUS fellowship in the country (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jum.14772?af=R). Over the past four years the fellowship expanded to include academic career training and mentorship for IM and FM graduates.

Prisma Health Midlands and the USCSOM USI faculty have strong partnerships with multiple ultrasound organizations including the AIUM, ACP, AAFP and WINFOCUS. The USI founded the Society of Ultrasound in Medical Education (SUSME: http://www.susme.org/ ) which hosted the First and Second World Congresses on Ultrasound in Medical Education and has conducted many workshops for internal medicine, family medicine and pediatric organizations as well as the AAMC, the Human Anatomy and Physiology Society, and American Physiology Society.