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The University of South Carolina School of Medicine created a yearlong primary care ultrasound fellowship in 2011 to address the rising educational demand in primary care specialties.
Describes the creation and structure of a primary care ultrasound fellowship to meet rising educational demand in point-of-care ultrasonography.
May guide primary care ultrasound fellowship development; leaves open standardization and outcome data needs.
As ultrasound devices become smaller, more portable, and more user friendly, there is now widespread use of this technology by physicians of all specialties, yet there are currently few structured opportunities for ultrasound education outside of emergency and critical care medicine. Anticipating the rising educational demand in the primary care specialties, the University of South Carolina School of Medicine created a primary care ultrasound fellowship in 2011, the first yearlong training program in point-of-care ultrasonography for graduates of internal medicine, medicine-pediatrics, pediatrics, and family medicine residencies. This paper reviews the history of point-of-care ultrasonography fellowships and then provides an overview of the primary care ultrasound fellowship.
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Barron et al. (2018) conducted a review in Ultrasound education. Primary care ultrasound fellowship was evaluated. The University of South Carolina School of Medicine created a yearlong primary care ultrasound fellowship in 2011 to address the rising educational demand in primary care specialties.
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