The core emergency ultrasound curriculum project: A report from the Curriculum Working Group of the CAEP Emergency Ultrasound Committee

Paul Olszynski; Dan Kim; Jordan Chenkin; Louise Rang

doi:10.1017/cem.2017.44

The core emergency ultrasound curriculum project: A report from the Curriculum Working Group of the CAEP Emergency Ultrasound Committee

CJEM. 2018 Mar;20(2):176-182. doi: 10.1017/cem.2017.44. Epub 2017 Jun 19.

Authors

Paul Olszynski¹, Dan Kim², Jordan Chenkin³, Louise Rang⁴

Affiliations

¹ *Department of Emergency Medicine,University of Saskatchewan,Saskatoon,SK.
² †Department of Emergency Medicine,University of British Columbia,Vancouver,BC.
³ ‡Department of Emergency Medicine,University of Toronto,Toronto,ON.
⁴ §Department of Emergency Medicine,Queen's University,Kingston,ON.

PMID: 28625217
DOI: 10.1017/cem.2017.44

Abstract

Emergency ultrasound (EUS) is now widely considered to be a "skill integral to the practice of emergency medicine." 1 The Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians (CAEP) initially issued a position statement in 1999 supporting the availability of focused ultrasound 24 hours per day in the emergency department (ED). 2.

Publication types

Multicenter Study

MeSH terms

Canada
Curriculum*
Education, Medical, Graduate / methods*
Emergency Medicine / education*
Humans
Internship and Residency / methods*
Retrospective Studies
Ultrasonography*