Training for Groups

Ultrasound training for your team

Your group does not need to send people one by one to national courses. UC Irvine's ultrasound division trains whole teams, the same way we train our own residents, fellows, and nurse practitioners.

Courses are led by ultrasound fellowship trained emergency physicians from an EUFAC accredited fellowship program. Our department performs about 250 scans a week and reviews every one of them in weekly quality assurance, and that is the standard we teach to.

Who we train

• Emergency department physician and APP groups

• Nurse practitioner and physician assistant teams building a credentialing file

• Hospitalist and internal medicine groups

• Residency programs that need ultrasound faculty coverage

• UCI Health sister sites standardizing point of care ultrasound across the system

What we teach

Core applications: eFAST, cardiac, IVC and volume assessment, aorta, biliary, renal and bladder, lung, soft tissue, and DVT studies.

Procedures: ultrasound guided vascular access, peripheral and truncal nerve blocks, and guided paracentesis and thoracentesis.

Program building: scan documentation and billing workflow, image archiving, quality assurance review, and credentialing scan shifts supervised by our faculty.

Formats

• Half day skills lab: one topic done well, mostly hands on scanning.

• Full day core course: the core applications with supervised scanning on live models.

• Two day comprehensive: core applications plus procedures and image review.

• Credentialing series: a block of supervised scan shifts for a cohort working toward privileging numbers.

Training runs at UCI in Orange or Irvine, or at your site with your own machines, which is usually the better way to learn.

Pricing

Our standard rate is $150 per hour per learner. A half day of hands on training runs $600 per learner, a full day $1,200. Programs are customized to the length and content your group needs, and we make exceptions with group discounts for large groups. Tell us the size of your team and what you want to learn and we will send a quote.