Select residents will have the opportunity starting their second year to join the Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) track. In this track residents will meet routinely with core faculty to practice scanning on real and standardized patients, review actual images and cases, participate in POCUS journal clubs, as well as participate in scholarly POCUS projects.
Track residents will also preferentially be scheduled for the bedside procedure elective and echocardiography elective. While on wards, POCUS track residents have the option to ‘check-out’ their own handheld ultrasound for the duration of the rotation.
Track residents will work towards building an image portfolio and become POCUS educators to fellow residents and medical students.
Program Director
Dr. Ernest Fischer is an Associate Professor of Medicine and the Assistant Program Director for Curriculum and Point of Care Ultrasound. He graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a bachelors in chemical engineering and a masters in biomedical engineering. He then completed medical school at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. For residency he went to The University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital for combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics training and now attends as a hospitalist on general inpatient wards at Georgetown. His interests include evidence-based medicine, physical exam, bedside procedures, and point of care ultrasound. He is the director of the point of care ultrasound longitudinal track and elective and leads year-round education in point of care ultrasound and bedside procedures.