Goal

Our goal is to prepare fellows to become the next leaders in advanced emergency ultrasound and tailor each fellow’s training to develop the skills and competencies necessary to reach their career aspirations.

Program Description

Our program is a 1-year EUFAC accredited Advanced Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Fellowship with a focus in preparing fellows in ultrasound administration, education, research, and assisting in developing fellow’s specific interests. By the end of fellowship, our fellows will be prepared to continue their emergency ultrasound careers in an academic or community setting.

Training includes:

Education

• Established curriculum to prepare fellows for the ABEM AEMUS FPD examination
• Didactic sessions led by ultrasound faculty 2-3 times per month
• One-on-one hands-on scanning with the fellowship director and ultrasound faculty
• Interactive, high-yield weekly QA sessions
• Journal Club

Teaching

• Resident ultrasound education including intern orientation, PGY 1-2 resident rotations, PGY-3 US electives, and our 4th-year longitudinal ultrasound track residents
• Medical students during their EM clerkship, POCUS elective, as well as other opportunities within the JHU School of Medicine
• Interdepartmental education with the ICU, anesthesia, internal medicine, pediatrics, and more
• Didactic presentations to residents, medical students, and faculty
• Opportunities for formal training in curriculum development and bedside teaching
• Collaboration opportunities with leaders in medical education

Administration

• Quality assurance and image management
• Coding, billing, reimbursement
• Program leadership and management
• Ultrasound equipment maintenance

Research

• Initiate and conduct a research project during the year, and participate in division research endeavors
• Access to a robust EM Research Division and institutional resources, including for study design, epi/biostats, and scholarly writing

Fellows can explore additional advanced training in nerve blocks with ultrasound faculty and in regional anesthesia, TEE training on simulators and in the OR with our combined emergency medicine-cardiovascular anesthesia faculty, and PEM ultrasound in the pediatric ED with PEM US faculty/fellows. Fellows also get the opportunity to pursue other academic interests with opportunity to collaborate within our department which boasts multiple leaders in various emergency subspecialties, as well as interdepartmentally.

Please visit our Hopkins POCUS Website.

Program Length

One-year program

Clinical Requirements

Fellows work 800 clinical hours during the academic year.

Clinical sites include Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, with opportunity to include clinical time at Johns Hopkins Howard County Medical Center, Sibley Memorial Hospital, or Suburban Hospital.

Prerequisites

Successful completion of an ACGME-accredited residency program in Emergency Medicine and board-eligible in Emergency Medicine

Start Date

July 1

How to Apply

If interested, please feel free to contact the program director, Dr. Eric Lieu, at [email protected].

For more information and to submit your application, please visit us at SCUF https://www.eusfellowships.com.

Application must include:

• Personal statement
• CV
• 2-3 letters of recommendation

Fellowship Director

Eric Lieu, MD, FPD-AEMUS

Advanced Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship Director
Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine
[email protected]

Dr. Eric Lieu is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Program Director for the Advanced Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship. He is a native of North Carolina, having completed his medical school training at Wake Forest School of Medicine. He then went to become Chief Resident at Christiana Care emergency medicine residency program and subsequently completed his advanced emergency ultrasound fellowship at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. He has held national leadership positions with EMRA and ACEP EUS, and has specific interests in education, ultrasound administration, and quality improvement. When he is away from work, he enjoys trying new ethnic restaurants, seeing live music, traveling, and spending time at the gym.