title: Pediatric emergency medicine fellow training in ultrasound: consensus educational guidelines.
abstract: The importance of point-of-care emergency ultrasound (EUS) to the practice of emergency medicine (EM) is well established, and mounting research continues to demonstrate how EUS can benefit pediatric emergency department (ED) patients. As members of the EM community, pediatric EM (PEM) physicians should understand the potential value of EUS and seek opportunities to incorporate EUS into their daily practice. Currently, EUS education and training is at an early developmental stage for PEM fellows and varies greatly between programs. The goal of this article is to provide consensus education guidelines and to describe a sample curriculum that can be used by PEM fellowship programs when developing or revising their US training curricula. The authors recognize that programs may be at different stages of EUS development and will consequently need to tailor curricula to individual institutional needs and capabilities. This guideline was developed through a collaborative process between EUS educators and members of the American Academy of Pediatrics Section of EM Fellowship Directors Subcommittee. The guideline includes the following topics: important considerations regarding EUS in PEM, PEM US program framework, PEM US curriculum, PEM US education program, and competency assessment.
authors.affiliation: Division of Emergency Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, MA, USA. Rebecca.Vieira@childrens.harvard.edu
authors.forename: Rebecca L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Vieira
authors.forename: Deborah
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hsu
authors.forename: Joshua
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nagler
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Rachel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gallagher
authors.forename: Jason A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Levy
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003479:Curriculum; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000592:standards*; D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000193:education*; D006776:Hospitals, Pediatric; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000592:standards*; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000193:education*; D019095:Point-of-Care Systems; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D018608:Ultrasonography, Doppler / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States