Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship
The University of Vermont Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship is a one-year program dedicated to training future leaders in emergency ultrasound.
Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship Highlights
- Level 1 Trauma Center
- 3-year Emergency Medicine Residency
- Integrated community and rural EM Network sites
- Longitudinal medical student 4-year curriculum
- Butterfly Enterprise web-based archiving system
- Billing for all ultrasound applications
- Resuscitative TEE training & credentialing
- Participation in regional and national conferences
- International travel opportunities
- Dedicated ultrasound machines for EUS education
- UVM Sim Lab with standardized patients
- HeartWorks TEE and TVUS simulators
- Competitive salary and benefits
- Unparalleled location in the Green Mountains beside Lake Champlain
Emergency Ultrasound Program Goals
Fellows receive hands-on instruction and mentorship to master image
acquisition and interpretation. Curriculum includes weekly scan sessions, online and classroom didactics, online resources including videos and Qbank, a textbook library, and literature review. Fellows will become credentialed in all advanced applications,
including resuscitative TEE. We cover topics and knowledge base needed to take the ABEM Focused Practice Designation exam in Advanced Emergency Medicine Ultrasonography.
Administration
Fellows will become facile at all aspects of running an Emergency Ultrasound program. These include information technology for image archiving, database management, billing/coding, quality assurance, and equipment maintenance.
Education and Teaching
Residency: Weekly EM resident scan shifts, QA review, and simulation training. Lecture opportunities at weekly resident didactics and monthly POCUS Rounds. Fellows will develop and EUS lecture portfolio and learn the foundations of curriculum
development.
Medical Students: Participate in teaching for, and enhancing, the 4-year integrated Larner College of Medicine curriculum and Emergency Ultrasound Clerkship curriculum.
Network: Mentorship and education for community providers in regional emergency departments, critical access sites, and primary clinics in Vermont and upstate New York.
Regional, National and International conference opportunities: Including Stowe Ultrasound Conference, ACEP, SAEM, SCUF, AIUM, WINFOCUS, Developing EM, St. Lucia Ultrasound Course.
Research
Ultrasound fellows will have access to our outstanding research team for guidance and support to develop and complete an original project. Opportunities abound for involvement in the many ongoing research projects in the department, including the Resuscitative
TEE Collaborative.
Fellowship Collaboration
Our Emergency Department has Sections of Global Health, EMS, Wilderness & Austere Medicine, Rural EM, Pediatrics, Health Equity, Healthcare Innovation, Palliative and Geriatric Medicine, Sports Medicine, Toxicology, and Critical Care with dedicated
faculty excited to collaborate on projects and involve the EUS Fellow.
International Educational Opportunities
The UVM EUS Program has established relationships with international conferences, courses, and projects in Saint Lucia, South Africa, and Uganda.
Clinical Work
University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington VT (UVMMC): UVM Medical Center's ED has more than 65,000 patient visits a year. It has 62 beds, with some specifically designated for trauma and major resuscitation. It has a separate pediatric
ED affiliated with the University of Vermont Children's Hospital, and currently one evening shift per day is staffed by our specialty-trained PEM faculty. Shifts at UVMMC will involve the supervision of EM residents, off-service residents, medical
students, and physician assistants.
Community hospitals in the University of Vermont Health Network where fellows may work include:
- Central Vermont Medical Center, Berlin, VT (CVMC)
- Porter Medical Center, Middlebury, VT (PMC)
- Elizabethtown Community Hospital, Elizabethtown, NY (ECH)
- Champlain Valley Physicians' Hospital, Plattsburgh, NY (CVPH)
Moonlighting/ additional pay opportunities: Fellows will have the opportunity to take on additional shifts at UVMMC and Network community hospitals during time periods that there is no conflict with fellowship responsibilities.