A Point-of-Care Ultrasound Rotation for Medical Education Fellows in Emergency Medicine

Abstract

A Medical Education (MedEd) fellowship provides emergency medicine (EM) residency graduates the structured and rigorous training to develop skills as educators. Although not accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), MedEd fellowships have established minimum curriculum standards [1]. Our institution’s MedEd fellowship curriculum incorporates an innovative opportunity for fellows: two 3-week rotations in Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS). Here we describe the rationale for using this POCUS rotation to reinforce key MedEd concepts that benefit the MedEd fellows, the POCUS trainees, and the Ultrasound section. Ultimately, we believe this addition in training helps further develop MedEd fellows’ teaching skills, with specific attention to kinesthetic and visual-spatial content.

Keywords

• POCUS
• MedEd
• fellowships
• education theory
• procedural training