Welcome to the Sonosite Institute for Point-of-Care Ultrasound, an in-depth educational resource provided exclusively to Sonosite customers with an active warranty. Explore richly designed ultrasound courses with webinars, video lectures, 3D scan models, pathology imaging, case studies, and reference materials. Advance your knowledge and test your learning progress with benchmark quizzes in each course!

John Hipskind, MD

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Ultrasound Fellowship Director at Kaweah Health Emergency Medicine

John Hipskind is a board-certified emergency physician in Visalia, CA.  He is active nationally within the POCUS community.  He currently is assistant medical director of emergency ultrasound at Kaweah Health.  He also is Kaweah Health’s EUFAC accredited emergency ultrasound fellowship director and its ACEP CUAP accredited graduate medical education ultrasound director.

John did his EM residency at Cook County Hospital in Chicago in 1995 prior to the widespread use of POCUS.  He became an early adapter using radiology leftovers, listened to US based podcasts as they became available, completed his POCUS fellowship through the Ultrasound Leadership Academy and is now Advanced Emergency Medicine Focus Practice Designated through ABEM.

Assisted with the development and review of the following content: Webinar: Beyond POCUS Archiving: Why is it So Important?

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