Emergency Ultrasound (Clinical Elective)

2 units

This elective involves the use of Point Of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) and its integration into clinical care. Students who take this elective will get in person didactics on basic POCUS applications and go scanning with both EM residents and faculty in person. Skills learned and practiced during the elective include POCUS image acquisition, clinical interpretation of POCUS images, and help use POCUS to answer clinical questions for patients and the physicians who care for them. Students will end the elective learning about how POCUS continues to expand its impact into multiple fields of medicine and has wide impacts and implications on patient care and patient centered outcomes.