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UC Irvine is a 3 year residency program with 6 residents per year. Located in Southern California, about midway between San Diego and Los Angeles in the city of Orange, 15 miles from Newport Beach. The volume is approximately 48K per year with a good mix of indigent and insured patients. We are a level I Trauma Center and see 1900 trauma runs per year. There are 15 full-time attending physicians that represent a wide array of sub-specialization including: toxicology, sports medicine, infectious disease, disaster medicine, pediatrics, informatics and ultrasound. We recently received our departmental status, and by July of 2003 the division of emergency ultrasound will be in place for 2 years. It is run by an emergency ultrasound fellowship trained emergency physician who is RDMS certified. There are 2 other attending physicians (Dr. Langdorf - the Chair, and Dr. Vaca – research coordinatory) who are also RDMS certified. There are two additional attending physicians who are working towards RDMS certification in 2003. The ultrasound program offers teaching to students from the first year |
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medical student level up to attending physicians from various areas of specialty. Residents and medical students from around the country perform externship rotations in emergency ultrasound at UCI. During the one-year fellowship, there will be research, teaching, clinical, and ultrasound requirements. The research requirement stipulates that two projects must be on-going at some point during the fellowship. The teaching duties include both bedside instruction to the residents as well as giving 10 lectures throughout the year. This may be done at weekly conference, through Windy City Ultrasound, or to the medical students rotating through the emergency ultrasound elective. The clinical duties pay for the fellowship and amount to eight 10-hour shifts per month for which you will receive $75,000 for the year. There are times of double and even triple attending coverage throughout the day. In order to learn the psychomotor skill of image acquisition, you will be required to scan 100 patients per month (1200 per year) and be present at 48 of the 52 QA sessions held during the year. Upon graduation the fellow is expected to obtain RDMS licensure. Applicants are encouraged to write a short statement of purpose outlining how they plan to utilize their skills in emergency ultrasound upon graduation form the fellowship. Prior ultrasound experience is not a prerequisite for acceptance. Decisions will be announced January 15.
Please send your statement of purpose and CV electronically to: J. Christian Fox, MD RDMS
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