Dr. Peter Steinmetz, Director of Undergraduate Bedside Ultrasound Teaching at McGill University presents this webinar to describe how ultrasound helps students learn anatomy and improve their clinical assessment, demonstrate how to start and integrate ultrasound into an already-full curriculum, and outline ways to develop faculty and resources to support an ultrasound curriculum in a four-year undergraduate program.

Dr. Stephen Haskins presents the emerging role of focused cardiac ultrasound as a powerful tool for the anesthesiologist in the perioperative setting. He discusses how point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) changes the way patients should be evaluated, and how medical decisions are made. He highlights ultrasound as a change agent for the future of the physical exam, and explains how technology has the ability to rapidly bridge the education and experience gap in medicine. Dr.

Dr. Davinder Ramsingh, Director of Perioperative Ultrasound and Clinical Research with the Department of Anesthesiology at Loma Linda University Medical Center presents, “Introduction into Perioperative Point-of-Care Ultrasound.” He reviews advances in ultrasound technology, discusses how point-of-care ultrasound is relevant to the perioperative setting and how it improves the physical examination and bedside assessment techniques; and presents the F.O.R.E.S.I.G.H.T protocol – a comprehensive educational curriculum on point-of-care ultrasound that focuses on the perioperative setting.