The fellow will work clinically as an attending in the Tampa General Hospital emergency department and will be responsible for working 12 clinical hours per week and will directly supervise residents and medical students on shift.  If interested, fellows are also permitted to work shifts at our free standing emergency department which is only 10 minutes away. 

The fellow will spend an additional 10 hours per week scanning and working closely with the fellowship director as well as various physicians and sonographers in the departments of obstetrics, radiology and cardiology. Additional time will be spent on asynchronous learning material, image review, research, POCUS meetings, journal club, and preparing didactic material for presentation. Upon completion of training the fellow will receive a certificate of fellowship training from the University of South Florida and be eligible to take the ABEM FPD examination.

The fellow will be trained in the six primary emergency ultrasound applications (ECHO, gallbladder, kidneys, aorta, 1st trimester pregnancy, FAST) and other secondary applications (advanced cardiac, TEE, procedural guidance, ocular, musculoskeletal, regional anesthesia, and foreign body removal). The fellow will be expected to complete a minimum of 1000 examinations. The fellowship director reviews the fellow's ultrasound images and provides feedback. Images are stored digitally using a state of the art cloud based system (Q-path).

Important facts

Contact Ultrasound faculty

Interested candidates should apply through www.eusfellowships.com

Charlotte Derr, MD, RDMS, FACEP, FPD-AEMUS

charlotteder@usf.edu

Ultrasound Fellowship Director

OR

Allyson Hansen, DO, FPD-AEMUS

Residency Ultrasound Director

allyson_hansen@teamhealth.org

Year Fellowship Started

2010

Length of Fellowship

The fellowship is one year in length.

Number of Clinical Hours

12 hours a week of ED attending shifts

Other Duties

Participation in resident and fellow weekly conference

Scanning shifts with residents, Q/A film review, billing audits

Additional Opportunities

Participation as faculty in national emergency medicine ultrasound courses, partnership with Gulfcoast Ultrasound Inst, regional anesthesia cadaver lab, MSK injection cadaver lab, sports medicine.

Number of Sites

1 clinical site (option to work at 2nd site if desired)

1 ultrasound site

Number of Positions per year

1

Eligibility

All applicants must have graduated from an ACGME accredited emergency medicine residency and be board-certified or board-eligible with the American Board of Emergency Medicine. In addition, the applicant must qualify for Florida Medical Licensure. Applicants must complete an employment application and submit three letters of recommendation for training. One of these letters must be from the applicant's residency program director.

Deadline for fellowship application

We are currently accepting applications

Do you bill for ultrasounds?

Yes

Do you require follow up imaging for patients who get ultrasounds?

No

Image Recorder

We utilize Q-pathE. Image workflow is managed in a state-of-the-art fashion using wireless and cloud technologies. The work list is activated using an EPIC order allowing hands-free entry of the patient demographics into the US machine.

Current Research Projects

Resuscitative TEE Registry: Hemodynamic Monitoring and Decision Making During the Resuscitation of Emergency Department Patients In Cardiac Arrest

Please visit our page at www.eusfellowships.com to learn more about our fellowship program and scholarly activity.