POCUS ECHO

Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) ECHO

About POCUS ECHO

Relaunching Monday, October 23, 2023

During each session, a panel of subject matter experts who constitute the ECHO “hub team” facilitate brief didactics, and de-identified patient cases are presented by participants. Students and established providers receive support and recommendations from their peers while learning how to comprehensively apply skills.

POCUS ECHO meets on the second and fourth Monday of each month from 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. ET via Zoom.

For any questions, please feel free to reach out to our program management specialist, Norelimane Bouzar: nbouzar@iu.edu

What is Point of Care Ultrasound?

Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) utilizes portable, easy-to-use, and affordable ultrasound technology that allows for quicker discovery of medical issues right at the point of care. Images are available immediately and require no waiting to see if a patient must be transferred to a different healthcare facility or prepared for further imaging assessment. This has vastly improved the quality of care for patients than in the past. The addition of POCUS in clinical care settings improves provider accuracy and quality of care, and in turn, improves patient outcomes.

Identified benefits of task shifting in POCUS include improved diagnosis and support of clinical decision-making that leads to better bedside management, increased health services, and better health outcomes overall. Additional benefits include availability of imaging at primary care levels and empowerment of frontline healthcare workers.

POCUS ECHO mentorship program

Applications are now open for the POCUS ECHO mentorship program. Healthcare providers with an intermediate level knowledge of using point of care ultrasound are invited to apply for the inaugural cohort.

Candidates accepted into the competitive program will be eligible to receive a portable, handheld Butterfly ultrasound machine on loan from Indiana University and participate in bi-monthly rapid image reviews with seasoned POCUS experts.

Individuals selected will participate in 1:1 mentorship and rapid image review with a seasoned POCUS expert on the 1st and 3rd Mondays of each month from 12:00-12:30 pm ET, beginning Monday, October 16, 2023.

Apply for the Closed-Cohort Mentorship Program

Upcoming curriculum topics

Those enrolled in the mentorship program will also attend the mentorship meetings listed in bold.

Curriculum topics are subject to change

Date	Didactic Topic
10/16/2023	Mentorship Meeting
10/23/2023	Basic Ultrasound Physics and Instrumentation // Soft Tissue Ultrasound
10/30/2023	Mentorship Meeting
11/6/2023	Musculoskeletal Ultrasound
11/13/2023	Mentorship Meeting
11/20/2023	Canceled for Thanksgiving
11/27/2023	Mentorship Meeting
12/4/2023	Cardiac POCUS
12/11/2023	Mentorship Meeting
12/18/2023	Lung POCUS
12/25/2023	Canceled for the Holiday Break
1/1/2024	Canceled for New Year's Day
1/8/2024	Mentorship Meeting
1/15/2024	Vascular POCUS // DVT POCUS // Aorta POCUS
1/22/2024	Mentorship Meeting
1/29/2024	Gallbladder POCUS // Liver POCUS // Small Bowel POCUS
2/5/2024	Mentorship Meeting
2/12/2024	CLUE Protocol // FAST Exam

Registered participants have access to our Canvas resource library.

Date	Didactic Topics
12/12/2022	Exploring Point of Care Ultrasounds and Utilizing the ECHO Model
12/26/2022	Canceled
01/09/2023	Focused Cardiac Ultrasound
01/23/2023	Focused Lung and Pleural Ultrasound
02/13/2023	Point of Care Ultrasound Physics
02/27/2023	Renal Point of Care Ultrasound
03/13/2023	Gallbladder & Liver Ultrasound
03/27/2023	Obstetrical Ultrasound
04/10/2023	Building a POCUS Practice: ECHO Panel
04/24/2023	Using POCUS for Undifferentiated Dyspnea
05/08/2023	POCUS in Austere Environments
05/22/2023	Using Ultrasound for Undifferentiated Hypotension
06/12/2023	Bowel Ultrasound
06/26/2023	Musculoskeletal Ultrasound featuring Live Session Demo

Hub Team

Jean Davis, RT (R), RDMS

Jean Davis

Point-of-Care Ultrasound Manager

Jean Davis is a registered diagnostic medical sonographer who retired from Eskenazi Health after 35 years. Davis is now the Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) program manager for the Indiana University School of Medicine.

Rob Ferre, MD, FACEP

Rob Ferre

Chief, POCUS US Division, Department of Emergency Medicine

Dr. Ferre graduated from the Medical College of Wisconsin. He completed his residency in emergency medicine at Maine Medical Center. Following residency, Dr. Ferre served three years on active duty for the United States Air Force at Wilford Hall Medical Center where he was the emergency ultrasound director for the SAUSHEC emergency medicine residency program.

Dr. Ferre has trained thousands of physicians of all different specialties and medical students throughout the United States, Guyana, Nepal, and Iraq. He currently serves as the chief of the Point of Care Ultrasound Division of the Department of Emergency Medicine. He also directs the IUSM Point of Care Ultrasound Initiative where we has the privilege of working with talented and dedicated educators.

Daryl G. Morrical, M.D., FACP, FCCP

Daryl G. Morrical

Pulmonary Critical Care Doctor

Dr. Daryl Morrical studied aeronautical engineering at Purdue University, graduated from medical school at IU School of Medicine, completed his internal medicine residency at Duke University Hospital, and pulmonary/critical care fellowship at the University of Vermont Hospital.

He has taught bedside ultrasound to medical students, residents, fellows, and medical/surgical staff for the last 12 years. Dr. Morrical received a certificate of completion in point of care ultrasound from the American College of Chest Physicians in 2012.

Molly Reitinger, M.D.

Molly Reitinger

Resident PGY-2

Second-year family medicine resident at IU with interests in POCUS, sports medicine, and prenatal care.

James Wilcox, M.D., RMSK, FAAFP

James Wilcox

Assistant Professor of Clinical Family Medicine

Dr. James Wilcox graduated from Indiana University in 2014 and completed his family medicine residency at IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital in 2017. He then completed his sports medicine fellowship at Western Michigan University in 2018.

As of 2020, Wilcox works at Eskenazi Health in outpatient primary care. In 2021, he accepted a grant-funded position at Indiana University School of Medicine teaching Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) and coordinating POCUS integration into the four-year curriculum as the HRSA PRIME POCUS thread director, and Indiana University School of Medicine assistant POCUS director.

Additional resources to support your learning

IUSM POCUS YouTube Page

Subscribe to the Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM) Point of Care Ultrasound YouTube page here.

IUSM Primary POCUS Canvas Page

Please note this is a separate Canvas page from ECHO's Canvas page. The Indiana University School of Medicine Primary POCUS page offers protocol videos, supplemental handouts, and many more resources.

Self-enroll here

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