Ultrasound Certificate Program

Advanced Abdominal Course Requirements

• Instructor
  • ACVR diplomat
  • other expert as evidenced by both:
    • publication record
    • acknowledged teaching and technical expertise
• Didactic Content
  • Advanced Principles of Ultrasound
    • Digital versus Analog beam formers
    • Doppler
    • Advanced beam steering
    • Contrast
  • Organ Systems
    • Pancreas
    • Adrenals
    • Gastrointestinal Tract
      • Stomach, duodenum, ileocolic junction
    • Sublumbar region
      • Lymph nodes, colon, vertebra
    • Neck
      • Thyroid, parathyroid & salivary glands
    • Musculoskeletal
    • Thorax
    • Topics for each organ system
      • Location
      • How to image
      • Normal appearance
      • Appearance of disease
      • Case discussion
  • Advanced Biopsy
• Laboratory Content (times provided are minimum per person)
  • General scanning technique (15 minutes)
    • Nomenclature of transducer movements
    • Scan planes
  • Organ Systems
    • How to image
    • Normal appearance
    • Pancreas (20 minutes)
    • Adrenals (15 minutes)
    • Gastrointestinal tract (20 minutes)
    • Sublumbar region (5 minutes)