Course Content and Design

We conducted a two-day workshop that comprised of didactic and small group hands-on sessions on November 19–20, 2019. The first pilot workshop was conducted on December 5–6, 2018. The didactic sessions elaborated on the fundamental knowledge on the topics followed by relevant hands-on sessions using the predesigned structured checklist (Supplement 1). Each hands-on practical station was practiced in a volunteer and locally made gelatin-based models (Figure 2–5).

Participant orientation about the USG probe use before the hands-on sessions.

Participants practicing RUSH protocol in a volunteer participant.

Instructor demonstrating foreign body removal in a model.

Participants practicing USG guided intervention in locally made gelatin-based model.

The core topics of POCUS were included in the workshop, namely; basic physics and knobology of ultrasound, extended focused assessment with sonography for trauma (E-FAST), focused cardiac ultrasound (FOCUS), lung ultrasound (LUS), focused abdominal ultrasound, focused obstetrical and gynecological ultrasound, rapid ultrasound for shock and hypotension (RUSH) protocol, USG guided vascular and other interventions and focused musculoskeletal (MSK) ultrasound.