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Oxford POCUS Review Book
 This book was co-edited by Alan Chiem and Vi Dinh (Loma Linda), who are both passionate about POCUS education and scholarship. We organized a multi-specialty team of over 70 POCUS experts from fields like cardiology, radiology, emergency medicine, critical care, pediatrics and hospital medicine. These experts come from over 20 world-renowned institutions, including UCLA, Loma Linda, Stanford, Highland/UCSF, UC Irvine, Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, and Ohio State. The book is organized into 18 chapters, following the consensus POCUS fellowship curriculum published by Lewiss et al in 2014. The content was specifically developed to prepare for the ABEM Advanced Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Board Exam as well as the NBE Critical Care Echocardiography Board Exam. Some key features of the book include: - 18 topical chapters, including FAST, Echo, Physics, VTE, Hepatobiliary, Resuscitative, MSK, ObGyn, and Procedural US - Over 500 questions with 800 tables and figures - In-depth explanations that cite primary sources, including 1000 landmark articles - Access to the digital version online, including 100+ videos Check out the links in the “POCUS Review Book” tab at the top of the page. |
(C19 era) Fellow Celebration, July 2020
We are several months into the COVID-19 pandemic, and like everyone else reading, all interactions and meetings are relegated to Zoom, FaceTime, or Skype. Exhausted by these virtual interactions, we had an in-person celebration for our fellows. This was a socially distanced event, with face masks, individually packaged food, and held with ample ventilation in one unnamed fellowship director’s backyard.   Thank you and congratulations to Amir for being a stellar fellow! And welcome, Kareem, to our POCUS family! |
WCUME 2019
The World Congress of Ultrasound in Medical Education is an international, multi-specialty annual meeting of medical educators who present innovative ways to teach and integrate ultrasound education. It is sponsored by the international organizations WINFOCUS and SUSME. This year, the conference was held at UC Irvine on September 12th to the 15th.  UCLA had a strong showing. Dr. Alan Chiem was the Integrate track chair, while Dr. Jackie Shibata co-chaired the Insonate track with Dr. Teresa Liu of Harbor-UCLA. Our fellow, Dr. Amir Tabibnia, served as faculty for the pre-course POCUS bootcamp.  In addition, Dean Ed Ha (IM) gave a presentation on Entrustable Professional Activities, while Dr. Michael Yeh (Surgery) discussed how POCUS improves his ability to manage complex thyroid cancers. Dr. Jim Lister (Anatomy) presented our 3D printing projects involving ultrasound education, and Drs. George Lim (EM/CC), Danny Kahn (IM), Manny Singh (Harbor-UCLA EM) discussed our new Ultrasound Peer Education Project (USPEP) and how to teach POCUS on clerkships.  Lastly--but certainly most importantly--our trainees also had an opportunity to participate at WCUME, including our EM residents (Jessa Baker) and Ultrasound Student Interest Group officers (Sahl Ali, Danny Le, Harshika Chowdhary, Jacob Guorgui, Jamie Yang, and Yasmeen Dhindsa).  |
Society of Clinical Ultrasound Fellowships Meeting
 April 14th-15th, 2018 USC, UCLA, and Harbor-UCLA co-hosted the annual Society of Clinical Ultrasound Fellowships meeting in Pasadena, CA, this year. This event brought over 150 ultrasound fellowship directors, ultrasound faculty, and fellows, to discuss topics like innovations in ultrasound education and research as well as challenges and solutions to ensuring that ultrasound fellowships continue to train the future leaders in clinical ultrasound (CUS). There were also panels on the subspecialty certification process for CUS, as well as the adoption of the NRMP “Match” process for fellowship programs.    |
First USIG Officers Graduate!
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UCLA Award for Excellence in Education
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Caleb’s Fellowship Graduation
 We celebrated Caleb’s completion of his ultrasound fellowship with the residency graduation at Le Méredien Delfina in Santa Monica. With Ricky transitioning back to Hawaii, Caleb really stepped up teaching efforts with the residents and medical students this year. This included trips to Nicaragua and Chile, where he taught in Spanish. In addition, Caleb won the semi-annual UCLA Clinical Teaching Award. Way to go, Caleb! We are fortunate to have him stay as ultrasound faculty, where he will continue to teach our residents and students.  |
Hellos, Goodbyes, and Hello Agains...
We said goodbye to George Lim, who has started a critical care fellowship at University of Miami in Florida. He looks forward to bolstering the point-of-care ultrasound skills of the ICU team there!   And, we said hello again to our recent graduate, Stephanie Tseeng, who started a full-time position as Assistant Ultrasound Director at Loma Linda University! Here we are at a recent beach event, where Ricky Amii is leading a session on the fine art of making s’mores.   |
UCLA-OV Team Ultrasound 2015-16
Produced by our media expert and Hawaiian hip hop guru, Dr. Ricky Amii: |
Summer-Fall Update 2015
Activities from our group this Summer and Fall include: We received a grant from ACEP to produce high quality ultrasound education videos in both Spanish and English. Partners on this project include EM:RAP, Project Semilla, and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Watch our promotional video below: Awards ceremony at UCLA-OV graduation in June. We celebrated the graduation of our fellows, Drs. Steph Tseeng and Pablo Aguilera. Our golden probe award winners were Drs. Sara Crager and Jada Roe, who are off pursuing fellowships in critical care and ultrasound, respectively.   We led the California ACEP chapter annual ultrasound course for the second year in a row, in LA in June. In addition to our UCLA-OV group, we had Drs. Chris Fox (UCI), Tarina Kang (USC), and Virag Shah (UCSD) lend their ultrasound brilliance to the course.  Dr. Alan Chiem participated in the AIUM Undergraduate Medical Education Forum in June, giving his talk on Show Me the Evidence: Literature Update on Ultrasound in Medical Education: We sent our first UCLA-OV team “Torsed Besties,” led by Dr. Steph Tseeng, to SAEM Sonogames in San Diego, May. Team members were Drs. Stephanie Brenner, Caleb Canders, Brandon Firestone, and Josh Novak. Also at the same conference, Dr. Chiem moderated a session on medical student ultrasound with panelists including Drs. Chris Fox, David Bahner, Uwe Blackstock, Viam Dinh, and Zach Soucy.  |
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