Society of Hospital Medicine Point of Care Ultrasound Regional Course (May, 2020)

Due to COVID-19 and the need for social distancing, This Course has been CANCELLED. 

Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Regional Course is organized by University of Colorado (CU) Anschutz Medical Campus Division of Hospital Medicine and will be held from May 16 - 17, 2020 at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital (UCH), Aurora, Colorado, United States of America. This Course has been approved for a maximum of 16 CME credits.

Target Audience:
While this course is specifically designed for hospitalists, the content will be useful to physicians and advanced practice providers (PAs, NPs) in the following areas:
• Hospital Medicine
• Family Medicine
• Internal Medicine
• Critical Care
• Emergency Medicine

Description:
The Denver Society of Hospital Medicine Point-of-Care Ultrasound Course is designed to allow participants to gain knowledge and skill in POCUS image acquisition, interpretation and integration into clinical decision-making. Live demonstrations, interactive case reviews, and didactics will complement hours of hands-on practice sessions.

The workshop is designed to maximize the participant’s time practicing ultrasound skills on live models. The participant groups will have a 4:1 ratio of participants to experienced instructors who utilize POCUS in their hospital-based practices. The training curriculum will focus on the highest yield POCUS exams for generalist providers caring for hospitalized patients. Interactive didactic sessions will underscore how POCUS can be applied to many common clinical scenarios that arise on the general medicine wards. Participants will learn to obtain images of the heart, lungs, abdominal organs, and vascular structures and practice interpretation of normal and abnormal images with discussion of how to appropriately integrate POCUS findings into clinical decision-making. Participants will also learn best practices of ultrasound-guided techniques for bedside procedures such as thoracentesis, central venous access, lumbar puncture, and paracentesis.

Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.