Course Overview
The two-day Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Course is a hands-on experience to learn the techniques of bedside ultrasound. Live demonstrations, case reviews, and didactics will complement hours of hands-on practice sessions. Participants will gain the skills, knowledge, and confidence to integrate bedside ultrasound into clinical practice.
The workshop is designed to maximize the participant’s time practicing ultrasound skills on live models. The groups will have a small ratio of participants learning (3:1 or less at hands-on stations) from experienced instructors who utilize POCUS daily in the clinical environment. The curriculum will be based on practical skills needed for the hospitalized patient with a focus on protocols and cases that underscore how POCUS can be applicable in the real world. Specifically, the participant will learn to obtain imaging of the heart, lungs, abdominal organs, and vascular structures as well as appropriate ultrasound-guided techniques for procedures such as thoracentesis, central venous access, and paracentesis. The workshop also includes a special session on program development and economics of POCUS.
Course Directors:
Manpreet S. Malik, MBBS, SFHM
Manpreet Malik, MBBS, SFHM, is an academic hospitalist at Emory University in Atlanta. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Emory and clinically works at Grady Memorial Hospital. He is the program director for the Transitional Year program at Emory. He has created and led multiple bedside ultrasound-guided procedure services including the one at Grady. He provides faculty mentorship to residents on the POCUS Distinction pathway at Emory. He teaches and directs bedside ultrasound and procedure workshops for various professional societies and is the course director for Atlanta’s two-day POCUS course.
Sneha Neurgaonkar, MD
Sneha Neurgaonkar is currently an academic hospitalist and associate director of the pocus/procedure service at the Atlanta VA Medical Center. She is a faculty mentor for the clinical distinctions POCUS track for the Emory Internal Medicine residency program. She is also a faculty instructor for pocus and procedure courses at regional and national conferences.