ACEP EUS Residency Education Subcommittee Update

Trent She, MD, FACEP
Hartford Hospital
David Suwondo, MD
Johns Hopkins
Tiffany C. Fong, MD, FACEP
Johns Hopkins

Crowdsourced Jeopardy

Too many of us have spent hours creating interactive, gamified lectures for our resident education events. To support each other as educators and stop this duplicated effort, our committee has developed a living crowdsourced POCUS question bank. This allows the creation of customized jeopardy-style games that cover the breadth of POCUS core content from resident level and beyond, with questions written and vetted by POCUS experts in the ACEP EUS section. This can grow or be edited with the changing face of POCUS knowledge and practice.

• Currently, we are in discussion with other groups (SAEM) about a permanent place to host the site.
• We are still looking for question writers, cool clips and additional questions (see info below).

For interested question writers:

• First, see what topics need questions on this Google Doc here.
• Second, utilize our reference Google Sheet by entering information on the Google Sheet to match the question you are submitting
• Third, go to this Airtable submission link to upload your question and clip
  • Please assign your question a dollar value!
    • $100-200 - EM Intern difficulty
    • $400-500 - Graduating resident/ultrasound fellow difficulty

For those with a cool clip:

If you have a cool clip or image but don’t have the time to write a question, that’s okay too! Drop your clip in this Google Drive folder and we’ll match it to a question writer.

Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship Application Toolkit

In the past several years, there have been many changes in how to apply to an emergency ultrasound fellowship. We have built an ultrasound fellowship application toolkit for the interested senior resident seeking to match into ultrasound fellowship. In the kit, we aim to have example CVs and personal statements from previously matched (de-identified) applicants, mentors at current ultrasound fellowships who can help a potential applicant on their way as well as potential town hall style meetings featuring faculty at different institutions discussing their factors when recruiting fellows.

• We are now on the ACEP Ultrasound Website!
• We hosted a Town Hall this past April and will be providing the video, audio and transcript to the Website.

Living Cookbook for Ultrasound Simulation Models

Creating low-cost, high-fidelity ultrasound models for educational use is something that many faculty desire in their educational pursuits. Although there exists much literature about creation of specific models, it can often be difficult to parse through scientific articles looking for a list of instructions on how-to create a model. We wish to compile a set of instructions in a “living cookbook” format on creating models, which educators could use and complete themselves with ease.

Living Cookbook Example

Potential Sections in the Cookbook

1. How to use the Basics: i.e., gelatin, meat glue, coloring agents, yam cakes, tofu, Metamucil
2. Specific types of procedures (such as pericardiocentesis) with multiple types of models below
3. Difficulty level of phantom creation
4. Have a comments section for people that have already made it before!

POCUS Quick Reference Cards

One of the most handy things for sonographers is the ability to quickly reference normal values as well as necessary views and measurements. We have created a set of editable Quick Reference Cards that can be attached to a hospital ID (badge buddy). The cards contain some reference values and quick instruction for almost all POCUS modalities. We also feature several advanced cardiac cards with step-by-step instructions on how to obtain and perform these more advanced measurements. The cards can be copied and individually edited for institutional and personal preferences. 

• Quick Reference Cards Here with instructions on how to print and edit on the first slide.

How to Get Involved?

Please feel free to join our group’s listserv (via Google Groups) or email Trent She to join.