Contents and Structures
ISCUS offers a wide range of programs in clinical ultrasonography training. These programs comprise any type of hands-on plus lecturing:
- Courses for beginners*,
- courses for the advanced*, and
- concluding courses*, moreover
- seminars and workshops, and
- teach the teachers programs.
Courses marked with * can be part of the three levels course system of the National Society of Ultrasound in Medicine DEGUM. These courses will be done in cooperation with DEGUM, offering the official certificate by the end of each course, which will have a minimum of 9 months in between.
The classical fields of diagnostic and interventional ultrasonography in medicine are acute or chronic diseases in abdomen, thorax, cardiovascular system, soft tissues, bones and joints, and others. All these topics are included in the teaching program options.
Basic courses are constructed for beginners in clinical ultrasonography. Basic courses on the above (sub-)topics – selected or in combination – can be offered in either a customized manner, or according to pre-existing schedules.
Courses for advanced trainees are either scheduled as a free style customized event agreed upon by the trainees and their FF teachers; or they are part of an approved training system with a well defined frame of time and contents. This is since years developed and used as the three level (basic, advanced, and finalizing courses) program of the German Society of Ultrasound in Medicine, DEGUM. A more or less extended own practice and pre-existing expertise of trainees is needed for the advanced course. It is desirable that a basic course has been absolved successfully.
Concluding courses address trainees who successfully underwent basic and advanced course training. Again, their contents are either customized or following well-tried program schedules.
Seminars and workshops of one or two days duration can focus on the above named list of topics in depth. They are meant for colleagues experienced in clinical ultrasonography, and – with sort of a smooth transition to teach the teachers seminars – focus on topics of special interest such as elastography, contrast enhanced ultrasonography, clinical ultrasonography in emergencies, etc. Special programs and expert training can be offered on request.
Teach the teachers seminars are to coach physicans with an extended expertise in clinical ultrasonography willing to pass down and to share this with other colleagues. Clinical teaching, by the way, never ends up as a one way system: it is always the teachers being learners as well.
More details on program suggestions are communicated on request.
Last updated Tuesday, November 30, 2010.