During each session, a panel of subject matter experts who constitute the ECHO “hub team” facilitated brief didactics, and de-identified patient cases were presented by participants. Students and established providers receive support and recommendations from their peers while learning how to comprehensively apply skills.
The POCUS ECHO met on the 2nd and 4th Monday of each month from 12:00 - 1:00 pm ET via Zoom.
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 the availability of imaging at primary care levels and the empowerment of frontline healthcare workers.
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 12:30-1:00 pm ET, beginning Monday, October 16, 2023.
Curriculum topics are subject to change
| Date | Didactic Topic |
Registered participants have access to our Canvas resource library.
| Date | Didactic Topics |
| 10/16/2023 | Mentorship Meeting |
| 10/23/2023 | Basic Ultrasound Physics and Instrumentation // Soft Tissue Ultrasound |
| 11/6/2023 | Mentorship Meeting |
| 11/13/2023 | Cardiac POCUS |
| 11/20/2023 | Cancelled for Thanksgiving |
| 11/27/2023 | Musculoskeletal Ultrasound |
| 12/04/2023 | Mentorship Meeting |
| 12/11/2023 | Lung POCUS |
| 12/18/2023 | Mentorship Meeting |
| 12/25/2023 | Canceled for Holiday Break |
| 1/1/2024 | Canceled for New Year's Day |
| 1/8/2024 | Vascular Point of Care Ultrasound |
| 1/15/2024 | Canceled for Martin Luther King Jr. Day |
| 1/22/2024 | The Focused Assessment with Sonography in Trauma (FAST) Exam |
| 2/5/2024 | Mentorship Meeting |
| 2/12/2024 | Gallbladder and Liver Point of Care Ultrasound |
| 2/19/2024 | Mentorship Meeting |
| 2/26/2024 | Rapid Ultrasound for Shock and Hypotension (RUSH) 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 |
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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