University of California, Irvine Medical Center

UC Irvine is an academic medical center that serves a diverse patient population. We are a level 1 trauma center, stroke and STEMI receiving center that is home to a 3 year EM residency.

2003

Division of Emergency Ultrasound is within the Department of Emergency Medicine

We currently have 3 ED ultrasound faculty, but all EM faculty are fully credentialed in POCUS. A total of 250 ultrasounds are performed per week in our ED.

Chris Fox, MD is the chairman of the EM department, is also trained in POCUS, and is the ultrasound fellowship director.

Megan Guy, MD is trained in POCUS and is the Associate Ultrasound Fellowship Director.

Edmund Hsu, MD is trained in POCUS and is the Ultrasound Director.

Ryan Gibney, MD has extensive experience in POCUS and was the interim Ultrasound Director, and is now Ultrasound Faculty.

Warren Wiechmann, MD is the Associate Dean for Clinical Science and is trained in POCUS.

Matthew Whited, MD is trained in POCUS and is Ultrasound Faculty.

Ultrasound fellows perform 1000 scans throughout the duration of the year. These scans are digitally recorded in video format. These and the additional 5000 scans that are also recorded and get reviewed each week with the fellowship director for a minimum of 4 hours. Fellows are required to teach ultrasound by lecturing to faculty in other departments, residents, and medical students.

Yes. We have an active billing agenda for the past 18 years.

Follow-up imaging not required once fellow is credentialed by the hospital to perform, interpret, and bill for bedside ultrasound. If the ultrasound fellow met the ACEP credentialing criteria in residency, then upon arrival to the fellowship they are credentialed to make decisions. However, there is no pressure to avoid ordering follow-up imaging. In fact, fellows are encouraged to order confirmatory studies whenever they wish.

We have over 20 IRB approved protocols currently collecting prospective data.