Overview

• 2 EM & 2 IM fellows annually

• Appointment position: 1 year

• Salary: 0.5 FTE ($105,000)

  • +moonlighting

  • + fringe benefits

  • + CME

• Appointment as Adjunct Clinical Instructor of Emergency Medicine or Internal Medicine

• Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship Accreditation Council (EUFAC) Accredited

• AEMUS Fellowship Overview

• AEMUS Fellowship AY2024-25 Curriculum

Faculty

• 5 faculty with ABEM Advanced Emergency Medicine Ultrasonography Focused Practice Designation

• 7 AEMUS fellowship-trained faculty

• 2 IM POCUS fellowship-trained faculty

• All EM faculty credentialed in POCUS

Responsibilities

• 720 annual clinical hours (EM)

• 915 annual clinical hours (IM)

• Weekly scanning shift & QA

  • AEMUS Faculty Schedule

  • >1000 expected scans

• Resident & medical student education

  • On shift

  • Lectures

    • Sim center

    • Cadaver lab

  • Medical School

• Publications (IRB-approved)

  • Abstract

  • Case report / series (optional)

  • Research

• Regional & National

  • Abstract presentation

  • Lecture(s) (optional)

  • POCUS course instructor (optional)

• Philadelphia Regional POCUS course director

• SAEM Sonogames faculty sponsor

• QA/PI project (optional)

• Grant proposal (optional)

Clinical Sites

• Temple University Hospital:

  • >85,000 adult & pediatric visits annually

  • Episcopal Campus: >30,000 adult & pediatric

  • Jeanes Campus: >38,000 adult & pediatric

• Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP):

  • >90,000 pediatric visits annually

  • scanning shifts with PEM POCUS faculty

EM Point-of-Care Ultrasound Equipment

• GE: Logiq E (3), Venue (6), Vivid (1)

• Sonosite: Edge (1), M-turbo (1)

• Butterfly iQs (11)

• Endo-cavitary transducers (3)

  • Clinical experience in ED & with SPs in Sim center

• TEE transducer (2) & Vimedex Simulator

  • Clinical experience in ED & OR

• ECG leads (4)

• Sectra & Butterfly cloud storage

• SonoSim LiveScan (2) in simulation center

• Midline catheters

• USG-RA nerve block kit

Didactics

Your training will be multifaceted.

• Hands-on training with ultrasound faculty

• Simulation training

  • Standardized patients

  • Cadaver lab

• Weekly QA

• Monthly Topic Reviews

  • Chapter discussions (Ma & Mateer’s Emergency Ultrasound)

    • Board review test prep

  • Lectures by ultrasound faculty & subject-matter experts

  • Journal Club

• Optional sub-specialty rotations: cardiology, PM&R, sports medicine/orthopedics, nephrology, pulm/crit care, endocrine, rheumatology, & anesthesiology

Teaching Opportunities

• Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University

  • Ultrasound in Medical Education longitudinal curriculum

  • Additional opportunities:

    • MS 1 & 2 Point-of-Care Ultrasound elective

    • MS 1 & 2 Point-of-Care Ultrasound Interest Group (USIG)

    • MS 4 Emergency Ultrasound elective 424

    • MS 4 Anatomy elective

    • MS 4 Transition to Residency course

• Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Physicians Assistant Program

  • Introduction to Point-of-Care Ultrasound

• Temple University Hospital

  • Department of Emergency Medicine

    • Resident Conference

    • On-shift teaching

  • Department of Internal Medicine

    • Point-of-Care Ultrasound Curriculum

      • IM Gel Rounds

  • Department of Hospital Medicine & Division of Nephrology

    • Faculty Development

  • Departments of Surgery & Anesthesiology

    • eFAST training

    • Training for Ultrasound in Global Surgery (TUGS)

  • Division of Pulmonary/Critical Care

    • Basics of Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Critical Care Course

    • PERT Team

  • Division of Podiatry

    • Musculoskeletal POCUS

    • Regional Anesthesia

  • Advanced Practice Providers & Nursing POCUS education

• Regional

  • ResusX & UltraRounds at Cooper University Hospital

    • Regional Critical Care & Emergency Medicine Conference

  • Philadelphia Regional Point-of-Care Ultrasound Conference

    • Regional Emergency Medicine resident conference

  • Philadelphia Regional UltraFest

    • Regional medical student POCUS conference

  • Philadelphia Emergency Medicine Medical Student Symposium

    • Regional medical student EM conference

  • Drexel University College of Medicine

    • Introduction to Point-of-Care Ultrasound

  • St Christopher’s Hospital for Children

    • Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship

      • Monthly lecture series

      • On-shift teaching

• National & International

  • American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM)

  • American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP)

  • Society of Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM)

  • Society of Clinical Ultrasound Fellowships (SCUF)

  • Mediterranean Emergency Medicine Congress (MEMC)

  • American Society of Echocardiography (ASE)

  • INDUSEM

  • International Federation of Emergency Medicine (IFEM)

  • American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM)

Educational Opportunities

• NYSORA Ultrasound Guided Regional Anesthesia Boot Camp

• ResusTEE Workshop

• Winfocus Advanced Echocardiography

• Clinical Ultrasound in Tropical Infectious Diseases Course

• Philadelphia Regional AEMUS Fellow Conference