EMED308A

VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) has become increasingly utilized in multiple medical specialties, with emergency medicine at the forefront. This rotation is designed to introduce point-of-care ultrasound to the clinical medical student and provide more in-depth and hands-on familiarity with bedside US for a variety of modalities. These skills will better equip students to use these techniques at the bedside of any patient in the emergency room or on the floors with greater facility and confidence. It will enhance patient diagnosis and management, procedural guidance, and patient satisfaction. It may even save a life! Primary emphasis will be on developing competent technical skills to enhance image acquisition and interpretation. The applications as defined by the American College of Emergency Physicians will be the main focus. A goal for a minimum number of ultrasound scans will be 25 per application including, eFAST, thoracic, renal, RUQ, aorta, limited ECHO and IVC, first trimester pelvic, DVT, orbital, MSK. Other advanced ultrasound applications will potentially be introduced (airway, bladder, nerve blocks). Students will obtain US images in the Stanford Emergency Department and will have imaging formally reviewed by a US fellowship trained emergency medicine faculty member. Images will be obtained during scan shifts during which students will scan appropriate patients and review images with the faculty member onsite and independently. Students will attend Bedside US didactics offered by an US EM faculty member every Thursday morning, followed by quality assessment (QA) review of Ultrasound scans performed in the ED. Students will have access and be expected to participate in online and computer-based learning that will be provided for them as well. This clerkship requires prior approval by Clerkship Director. Contact clerkship director Dr. Nick Ashenburg (ashenburg@stanford.edu) and clerkship coordinator Lauren Berriatua (laurenbe@stanford.edu). For visiting international students, please submit your application directly through the International Visiting Student (IVS) Program via https://med.stanford.edu/clerkships/international.html. Please contact visiting-MD-students@stanford.edu if you have any additional questions regarding the IVS Program. PREREQUISITES: Medicine and Surgery rotations, MS 4/5 given preference over MS3. PERIODS AVAILABLE: 4-11, full time for 4 weeks, 2 students per period (subject to change by period). CLERKSHIP DIRECTOR: Nick Ashenburg, M.D., ashenburg@stanford.edu. CLERKSHIP COORDINATOR: Lauren Berriatua, laurenbe@stanford.edu. REPORTING INSTRUCTIONS: Where: TBA; Time: 9:00 am. CALL CODE: 0. OTHER FACULTY: K. Anderson, Y. Duanmu, V. Lobo, M. Askar, C. Hill. LOCATION: SUMC.