Ultrasound Fellowship

• Accredited through the Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship Accreditation Council (EUFAC)
• Salary: $90,000 with opportunities to moonlight.
• Duration of fellowship: 1 year
• Clinical duties: ~16 hours/week in the ED (this may include supervising EM and rotating residents), monthly faculty meeting
• Fellowship duties: 3-5 hours/week image review, 4-8 hours/week scanning in the ED, 2-5 hours/week research project work, 2-3 hours/month journal club.  Fellows are expected to perform a minimum of 1,000 scans during their fellow year.
• Education: Fellows are required to actively engage in the education of our residents and rotating medical students. This will involve teaching during scan shifts and periodic resident conferences in addition to sporadic ultrasound courses.
• Research: Fellows are required to participate in a research project. Ultrasound faculty will help with developing ideas and methods, write-up, review and submission.
• Publication: Fellows are required to work toward successfully completing one publishable manuscript/case report during their fellow year, as assisted by ultrasound faculty.
• Evaluations: Fellows will be provided a written evaluation twice per year to discuss progress, areas of excellence and areas of improvement, and career planning.

We are a tight knit group who are eager to help each other advance in their careers and personal lives. We aim to cultivate a fun and energetic environment that will aspire fellows to excellence. To this end, the section participates in ultrasound courses, attending skill sessions, and the occasional regional conference.  We also have periodic group outings and the yearly section dinner at Chateau Theodoro.

Our section has had a hand in advancing the field of emergency ultrasound over the last 15 years and continues to do so with a strong national presence and active research production. Our goal with the fellowship is to produce leaders in the field of emergency ultrasound. 

The fellowship educational curriculum follows the guidelines and expectations set by the Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship Accreditation Council (EUFAC). This includes high quality didactics, proctored and independent scanning shifts in the ED, monthly journal clubs covering important landmark papers as well as newer impactful studies, and scheduled review of core textbook chapters.

Schedule

As an overview, fellows will be required to attend two Q/A (image review) days per week (Monday and Wednesday), each lasting approximately 2-4 hours. On Thursdays, fellows will scan in the ED with Emergency Ultrasound faculty in the afternoon.

Scan days are left for the fellow to schedule for themselves (those listed in the calendar are for demonstration only) at Barnes-Jewish Hospital or St. Louis Children’s Hospital (if the fellow obtains SLCH privileges).

Every third Thursday is the Ultrasound Section meeting, which includes 2-3 hours of didactics on topics ranging from core to advanced ultrasound topics to educational approaches to research methods to existentialism. These are followed by discussing section business and administration. 

Asynchronous projects include the yearly internal ultrasound bootcamp course, periodic community emergency provider courses, quarterly critical care ultrasound courses, and a yearly pediatric care point-of-care ultrasound course (PICU POCUS).  Fellows are generally provided opportunities to lecture during these courses in addition to helping with scanning stations.

Daniel Greenstein, MD

Ian Holley, MD

Alek Rosenthal, MD

Allie Grither, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Emergency Medicine; Director of Ultrasound Services, Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Nicole Messenger, MD, Instructor of Emergency Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine

Lindsay Jaeger, MD, EMS fellow, University of Chicago

Tama The, MD, Emergency Ultrasound Director, Mercy Hospital, St. Louis, MO

Wendy Hanna, MD, Director of Emergency Ultrasound, University of New Mexico Emergency Medicine

Melissa Puffenberger, MD, Director of Pediatric Emergency Medicne, Mercy Hospital, St. Louis, MO

Alicia Oberle, MD, Swedish Medical Center, Colorado

Laura Wallace, MD, Director of Emergency Medicine; Resident Education

Albert Kim, MD, Assistant Residency Program Director; Program Director, Medical Education Fellowship; Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine

Melanie Kennedy, MD, Assistant Medical Director for SSM St. Charles

Enyo Ablordeppy, MD, Co-director of Critical Care Ultrasound Program; Director of Emergency Ultrasound Research; Associate Professor, Anesthesiology & Emergency Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine

Nicholas Renz, MD, Pediatric Emergency Ultrasound Lead, Washington University Emergency Medicine