Ultrasound Education Group

Pathway to Ultrasound Future

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The Ultrasound Education Group equips comprehensive ultrasound skills to a variety of healthcare practitioners by delivering eLearning courses, hand-on workshops and simulation workshop

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Introducing the Butterfly iQ: Future of Point-of-Care Ultrasound
On 25 October 2019, Professor Alistair Royse, Acting Director of the University of Melbourne – Department of Surgery and Ultrasound Education Group welcomed The Hon. Richard Wynne, Minster of Planning and Housing Victoria to demonstrate the Butterfly iQ ultrasound. The Hon. Richard Wynne has shown his commitment to health and the future by personally donating a Butterfly iQ ultrasound machine to the Royal Melbourne Hospital. Dr Royse took some time on Friday to demonstrate this new technology.

28 Oct 2019 Ultrasound Technology
Workshop on emergency medicine and critical care echocardiography is coming to Perth
Introducing the founding instructors for iHeartScan. Both Professor Michael Veltman who is a specialist cardiothoracic anaesthetist, and Professor John Faris, a specialist anaesthetist, were founding academics involved in the creation and ongoing development of iHeartScan workshops. What led them to develop the workshop was the constant need for rapid assessment tools for cardiac function, both in peri-operative medicine and also in emergency and critical care environment.

22 Aug 2019 News
Heart Surgery Shortcut
Doctors in Melbourne have performed an Australia-first lifesaving heart surgery using pioneering 3D technology. The operation, which used a 3D scanner and mesh sleeve took place while the patient’s heart kept beating.

04 Apr 2019 News
Heart Plumbing: The Pipes Matter
An Australian surgeon has long championed using arteries rather than veins in heart bypass surgery, and the mounting evidence that he’s right may change world practice

10 Dec 2018 News
Simulator Course is Highly Effective - Ultrasound Education Group research study featured in Journal of Critical Care
Recent exciting news is that The Ultrasound Education Group team have recently published a research project in Journal of Critical Care, that demonstrated that the University of Melbourne FCU TTE Simulator course was more effective and cheaper to teach focused cardiac ultrasound than the iHeartScan course. This is a major accolade for the team in developing and conducting this course.

27 Nov 2018 News
UEG student spotlight: James Anstey | an intensivist, pianist and guitarist
Meet James, an intensivist who's passionate about every sound frequency, from ultrasound to piano and guitar

20 Nov 2018 News
A world first online Medical Perfusion course at University of Melbourne
Medical perfusion is the most extreme physiological intervention we perform in medicine today. There’s nothing that comes remotely close. Normally, if you cross clamp someone’s aorta, they are dead in a minute. In medical perfusion, you are successfully taking over the function of the lung and heart for a couple of hours. You’ve got to take this seriously. This is not something that you do on a whim, and you shouldn’t just be ‘winging it’ as an apprenticeship

20 Nov 2018 News
Saving lives with less blood
Heart surgery uses more precious donated red blood cells than almost any other procedure, but a major global study has confirmed that its safe for surgeons to use less

14 Sep 2018 News
FUSE Travels to Hong Kong
Our FUSE (Focused Ultrasound Simulation Education) courses have travelled internationally! In April this year A/Prof David Canty, from the Ultrasound Education Group, gave a lecture at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Simulation and Skills Centre, Hong Kong

28 Aug 2018 News
Transthoracic echocardiography - TTE in Pregnant Women
Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) has been widely used in many areas of medicine but has been slow to become integrated into the general management of pregnant women. The physiological and anatomical changes of pregnancy, as well as consumer preferences, make transthoracic echocardiography an ideal monitor for critically ill pregnant women.

28 Aug 2018 News
FUSE Programs On The Move
Now a permanent fixture in the Centre for Excellence and Innovation in Anesthesia (CEIA), Royal Brisbane Women’s Hospital (RBWH), the Brisbane Focused Ultrasound Simulator Education (FUSE) programs are now up and running as established training courses for doctors wanting specialized ultrasound training.

21 Aug 2018 News
Will The Stethoscope Be Replaced By Ultrasound?
Simply this imaging technology is vastly superior to the current technology (stethoscope and clinical examination) and is also better in many circumstances than a chest x-ray which comes with the additional risk of a dose of radiation. It is very easy to learn and very rapid to perform. The ultrasound technology is becoming much more widely available and within a short space of time, the wider availability of pocket ultrasound machines will make this a practical reality.

21 Aug 2018 News
Expanded Opportunities for the Graduate Courses
Plans are underway to expand the Graduate Certificate, Diploma and Master of Clinical Ultrasound Award Courses to encompass more students of allied health disciplines such as physiotherapists, nurses, medical imaging professionals and perfusionists.

21 Aug 2018 News
Sonosite iViz – Disrupting the Medical Education Paradigm
True disruption comes when technology changes the paradigm of medicine and new adopters emerge. A number of studies suggest use of ultrasound will change the diagnosis or management in up to 20-50% of cases. What has limited us in the past in medicine is the cost and size of new equipment; and who has access to it.

21 Aug 2018 News
The Paradox of Lung Ultrasound
Assessment of the lung has traditionally been considered off-limits for ultrasound, because the presence of air and its high acoustic mismatch with surrounding tissues causes a complete reflection of the ultrasound beam and therefore an inability to create direct images of the pulmonary parenchyma.

21 Aug 2018 News
Ultrasound Education Group Have Success during RMH Research Week
Three members of the Ultrasound group were awarded prizes for best oral presentations during the Royal Melbourne Hospital Research Week.

29 Jun 2018 News
Pushing the Boundaries of Education
Medicine graduates Professors Colin and Alistair Royse have taken a career pathway together armed with a big picture vision coupled with a practical approach.

06 Jun 2018 News
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Frequently Asked Questions

1. How to learn ultrasonography in Australia? Where to get started in incorporating clinical ultrasound into practice?

In simplest terms, clinical ultrasound can be used as an extension of clinical evaluation by all medical practitioners. Think of it as “ultrasound assisted clinical evaluation”, and so basic ultrasound of the heart, lungs, deep veins, abdomen, musculoskeletal system and even during pregnancy simply improves the diagnostic fidelity of routine clinical evaluation. In this most complex form, ultrasound forms a part of specialties such as cardiology or radiology.
Many universities are now teaching basic clinical ultrasound as part of the undergraduate medical curriculum. In a few years’ time this is likely to be routine across most universities. This is where you get started in incorporating clinical ultrasound into your practice. However, it is just the start and like most medical skills, needs further training to improve knowledge and skill. To this end, there are number of options available including purely online learning, or blended learning program such as workshops or simulator-based programs. Within clinical learning, mentors will help guide and check skills and interpretation.
The Ultrasound Education Group in the Melbourne Medical School, at the University of Melbourne already has many options available from simple online courses to graduate award programs such as certificate, diploma, or master courses; as well as a suite of workshop and simulated base courses.
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2. What are other specialties in ultrasound?

In the future, all doctors should be able to perform basic clinical ultrasound. The range and type of ultrasound scans will depend on the scope of practice of the medical practitioner. Within each specialty craft group, there will also emerge a group of practitioners who become advanced clinical ultrasound usages.
For example, in the critical care specialties (anaesthesia, intensive care and emergency medicine) all doctors should be able to perform basic clinical ultrasound, but some will become experts including applications such as transoesophgeal echocardiography. The two core specialties where ultrasound is seen as a subspecialty is cardiology and radiology. Practitioners become very expert in their field of ultrasound use, and typically will supervise ultrasound laboratories which are staffed by ultrasound sonographers.
3. What is the future of diagnostic sonography?

The uptake of clinical ultrasound by non-cardiology/radiology practitioners is a highly disruptive process that is excellent for patient care. The ability to more accurately diagnose medical conditions during their first presentation will enormously improve patient care and probably reduce cost due to misdiagnosis.
However, when abnormalities are detected with basic ultrasound, there will frequently be a need to confirm and quantify the diagnosis and severity with more advanced ultrasound imaging. It is likely that specialists in diagnostic sonography will see fewer “normal studies” but more studies with pathology. Furthermore, over time more basic uses will extend their knowledge and skill to diagnostic level. Within departments or groups of practitioners from multiple specialties including general practice specialists, there will be “in-house” ability to confirm findings from basic ultrasound.
4. What is the difficulties and challenges while studying ultrasound?

Studying ultrasound has two key components-knowledge and practical skills. When a practitioner starts to learn ultrasound, the knowledge, hands on learning, and practice of roughly equal proportions. However, as the transition from basic to advanced practitioner the greatest proportion of learning is knowledge.
When starting, it is important to have a systematic approach to learning and starting with basic before tackling advanced topics. It is important to have good instruction on how to perform the ultrasound in a systematic manner and then applying it in practice.
One of the difficulties is when students have a burst of learning and then don’t practice. We highly recommend that the student tries to perform a number of echocardiography studies early on to boost their confidence. We know that after about 30 scans, their confidence improved enormously and the rate of continued learning begins to slow.
5. What is the difficulties and challenges while studying ultrasound online?

Online learning is very good for delivering knowledge and for practicing interpretation. Part of that learning is how to perform the scan. However, sooner rather than later, the student does need to learn and practice the actual acquisition of ultrasound images-and that cannot be done online.
It is best to think of the online learning as a part of a blended learning program whereby the knowledge and interpretive practice is delivered online and the hands-on learning and practice must be done with the patient.
6. Is ultrasound scan safe, what should I pay attention to when performing a scan?

The ultrasound scan is considered completely safe. This includes ultrasound scans during pregnancy. Some types of ultrasound scans are considered “invasive procedures” where body cavities are entered, and then there is risk of damage to the body organ or discomfort to the patient.
For example, Transoesophageal echocardiography or vaginal ultrasound are examples. When performing a scan, it is important to consider how to position and expose the patient maintaining their privacy at all times.
Physical pressure of the probe on the skin can be uncomfortable, particularly if there is bruising or fractures around the site that you’re putting the ultrasound probe onto. Sometimes, one has to not scan a certain part for the patient comfort sake.

Recognition for Prior Learning

Advanced standing or recognition of prior learning is acknowledgement of prior study granted based on prior study or work experience. Contact us if you believe you are eligible for advanced standing. You will be asked to provide further information and detail about the studies you have completed to help with this assessment.

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Booking the Simulator at Center for Medical Research

DETAILS
We have a variety of simulators available for
Simulator bookings are only available to UOM students and staff members of Royal Melbourne Hospital.
STEP 1
Please click the link to access the Simulator Booking System.
STEP 2
Log in using your email address.
STEP 3
An instruction is given on how to select a suitable simulator for your use in the booking system.
Please read it before you make the appointment.
Select the Suitable Simulator on the top right-hand corner.
STEP 4
You can click on the Calendar on a preferred day (on the right-hand side) and time (below the calendar).
All booking session is to be booked in1 hour blocks. Multi-bookings are available.
Enter your full name and click 'Create Reservation'.
Or, you can click Available tab, it will show you a list of time and available simulators within 24 hours.
You can modify this search at the bottom of the page.
Please contact us on +61 3 9035 4739 or email mobile-learning@unimelb.edu.au if you require assistance with your booking.
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How do I get my login details?
Our 'Getting Started' email is sent to you immediately after you successfully enrol in a course. This will contain your login details along with other information you need to get started.
Do a search of your inbox for 'Getting Started' to quickly locate this email.
Please check your junk mail if you do not see the 'Getting Started' email in your inbox.
Contact our support team if you cannot find this email.
I’m seeing "The username or password you entered is incorrect.". What can I do?
Find your login details in the "Getting Started" email.
Carefully copy and paste your login details across to the login screen, ensuring that caps lock is off (passwords are case-sensitive), and you are not inadvertently adding a blank space before or after your password.
If you have enrolled in a free course, then you will have access to the free course for 6 weeks. After your access has lapsed, you will receive the 'incorrect username or password' error. You will need to enrol in a paid course or contact support to extend your access to the free course if this is the case.
If you have forgotten your password, use the 'Forgot your password' option on the login screen to reset your password.
I'm seeing "There was a problem while contacting the server. Please try again later". What can I do?
Often this is caused by an incorrect username or password. Please double-check that your username and password are correct.
Sometimes our servers can go down for short periods for maintenance. Let us know at support if you continually receive this message.
If you have downloaded the materials to your portable device for offline access, then you may receive this message after a continuous period of more than 2 weeks being offline. Our system requires that you periodically re-verify your identity at least every 2 weeks to continue receiving offline access to materials. Connecting to the internet and then logging into the app whilst online will re-verify your identity and solve this issue.
The app is crashing or the app/web browser is constantly asking me to login.
This can happen for a number of reasons:
- Your username and/or password are incorrect. Please double-check to ensure that you have entered them correctly.
- You have exceeded the maximum number of device logins. We have a limit of 5 devices logins before your access is automatically limited, causing the app to exit each time you attempt to login. Sometimes you can reach this limit unexpectedly, as 'new devices' can be accidentally recorded by the system if you clear your cookies or use a different browser. If you suspect that this is happening then please contact us and we will reset your device count.
Cancellation & Transfer Policy
Participants are required to inform our office in writing if they need to cancel their place on a FUSE/FCU course or iHeartScan workshop. Requests to cancel a course or workshop or to transfer to another course or workshop must be sent by email to mobile-learning@unimelb.edu.au
The cancellation and transfer policies are as follows:
Refund
- Up to 6 weeks prior to the course/workshop: a full refund will be provided within 10 working days after you have notified (and received acknowledgement) from the office.
- 2 – 6 weeks prior to the course/workshop: For a FUSE or FCU simulator course, 40% ($100) cancellation fee will be charged. For an iHeartScan course, a 40% ($560) cancellation fee of the workshop fee will be charged and the difference will be refunded within 10 working days after you have notified (and received acknowledgement) from the office.
- 2 weeks prior to the workshop: a 100% cancellation fee will apply and no refund will be given.
Transfer
- 12 months to 6 weeks prior: Transfer is free of charge.
- 2 to 6 weeks prior: For a FUSE or FCU simulator course, an administration fee of $50 will be charged. For iHeartScan an administration fee of $195 will be charged.
- 2 weeks prior: No transfer will be given.
Course/Workshop Cancellation
- In the event that the course/workshop you are registered in is cancelled or re-scheduled, registrants will have the option of receiving a full refund or transferring to an alternate workshop within 12 months of the original workshop registration date.

CME and CPD accreditation guide

	iHeartScan	iHeartScan Adv	Graduate Certificate in Clinical Ultrasound	Graduate Diploma in Clinical Ultrasound	Master in Clinical Ultrasound	All Focused Ultrasound Simulator Education Simulator Courses	How to claim	Contact
ACEM	Workshops & Training, Procedural & Skills based - approx 10.75 hours	Workshops & Training, Procedural & Skills based - approx 11.15 hours	Yes - Contact ACEM for more information	Yes - Contact ACEM for more information	Yes - Contact ACEM for more information	Workshops & Training, Procedural & Skills based 3 hours	Complete the participant feedback form and submit it to us at echo-info@unimel.edu.au immediately upon completion of your course. We will then notify ACEM of your attendance at our course.	cpd@acem.org.au
ANZCA	Knowledge & Skills, 2 Credits per hour (up to maximum of 50 points per course)	Knowledge & Skills, 2 Credits per hour (up to maximum of 50 points per course)	Knowledge & Skills, 2 Credits per hour (up to maximum of 50 points per course)	Knowledge & Skills, 2 Credits per hour (up to maximum of 50 points per course)	Knowledge & Skills, 2 Credits per hour (up to maximum of 50 points per course)	Knowledge & Skills, 2 Credits per hour (up to maximum of 50 points per course)	Upload the evidence of your participation in the ANZCA CPD portfolio system using your college ID number and password.	cpd@anzca.edu.au
ASUM	6.5myASUM CPD points for attending the duration of the course	6.5myASUM CPD points for attending the duration of the course	Not available	Not available	Not available	Not available	Sign into MyASUM and log the details of your activity. More information here.	asum@asum.com.au
CICM	Lectures: Category 2A, 1 point per hour Scenarios/small group procedures: Category 2B, 2 points per hour	Lectures: Category 2A, 1 point per hour Scenarios/small group procedures: Category 2B, 2 points per hour	Category 1B, 2 points per hour	Category 1B, 2 points per hour	Category 2B, 2 points per hour.	Pre-course learning: Category 1A, 1 point per hour or Category 2B, 2 points per hour.	Sign into the CICM members' portal and log the details of your activity. More information here.	stephanieh@cicm.org.au
RACS	1 Point per hour in Maintenance of Knowledge and Skills	1 Point per hour in Maintenance of Knowledge and Skills	Not available	Not available	Not available	1 Point per hour in Maintenance of Knowledge and Skills	Notify us at mobile-learning@unimelb.edu.au of your RACS membership number and the workshop that you attended immediately after completing your workshop. We will then notify RACS of your attendance.	college.sec@surgeons.org

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Graduate Courses in Clinical Ultrasound

Graduate Courses in Clinical Ultrasound

These three award courses are offered to medical professionals who wish to obtain further expertise in medical ultrasound for clinical practice. All graduate courses are delivered online and require no contact hours. Course materials can be downloaded to iPad, Android or Windows tablets or can be accessed online using a web browser.

FCU & FUSE Simulator Courses

Simulator Courses
Focused Ultrasound Simulator Education (FUSE) and Focused Cardiac Ultrasound (FCU)

Clinical training and education are vital elements for any hospital’s growth. Our Focused Ultrasound Simulator Education (FUSE) and Focused Cardiac Ultrasound (FCU) workshops have been developed to combine the advantages of eLearning and Simulator Self-training.

Hands on Workshops

Hands on Workshops
iHeartScan (Haemodynamic Echocardiography Assessment in Real Time)

The iHeartScan (Haemodynamic Echocardiography Assessment in Real Time) workshops are designed to teach Point-of-Care (POC) Transthoracic Ultrasound by practicing on live models.

Online Continuing Professional Development

Continuing Professional Development
Short Courses

Continuing Professional development for medical practitioners includes a range of activities to meet individual learning that is relevant to their scope of practice, in order to maintain, develop, update and enhance knowledge, skills and performance to ensure that they deliver appropriate and safe care

Micro Courses

These micro courses aim to provide topic focused educational courses in specific learning areas. These short courses are cost and time effective with the average learning time of 1 month for a single course or 3 months for a package course.

Animal Ultrasound Courses

Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences

Graduate Certificate in Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care and Graduate Certificate in Small Animal Ultrasound Abdominal will provide students with comprehensive veterinary ultrasound diagnosis.

2020 Ultrasound Workshop Schedule

All workshops are undertaken at the University of Melbourne in Parkville, unless stated otherwise

Thursday20 Feb 2020

Lung Ultrasound for Nurses and Physiotherapists

8:30am - 12:00pm

Workshop Information - Payment

Friday28 Feb 2020LIMITED SPACES

FCU Transoesophageal Echocardiography (TOE)

9:00am - 12:00pm

Workshop Information - Payment - Recommended Reading

Thursday12 Mar 2020

FCU Transthoracic Echocardiography (TTE) Advanced

9:00am - 12:00pm

Workshop Information - Payment - Recommended Reading

Friday13 Mar 2020LIMITED SPACES

NEW Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) Ultrasound

9:00am - 12:00pm

Workshop Information - Payment

SATURDAY - SUNDAY 21-22 Mar 2020LIMITED SPACES

Haemodynamic Echocardiography Assessment in Real Time (iHeartScan™)

Day 1: 8:30am - 5:00pm

Day 2: 9:00am - 2:30pm

Workshop Information - Payment - Recommended Reading

Thursday26 Mar 2020LIMITED SPACES

NEW 3D Echocardiography

9:00am - 12:00pm

Workshop Information - Payment - Recommended Reading

Friday27 Mar 2020

FUSE Lung & Gastric Ultrasound

9:00am - 12:00pm

Workshop Information - Payment - Recommended Reading

Friday17 April 2020

FCU Transoesophageal Echocardiography (TOE) Advanced

9:00am - 12:00pm

Workshop Information - Payment - Recommended Reading

Tuesday21 Apr 2020

FCU Transthoracic Echocardiography (TTE)

9:00am - 12:00pm

Workshop Information - Payment - Recommended Reading

Thursday21 May 2020

Lung Ultrasound for Nurses and Physiotherapists

9:00am - 12:00pm

Workshop Information - Payment

Friday22 May 2020

FCU Transthoracic Echocardiography (TTE) Advanced

9:00am - 12:00pm

Workshop Information - Payment - Recommended Reading

Thursday4 Jun 2020

NEW 3D Echocardiography

9:00am - 12:00pm

Workshop Information - Payment - Recommended Reading

Friday5 Jun 2020

FUSE Lung & Gastric Ultrasound

9:00am - 12:00pm

Workshop Information - Payment - Recommended Reading

SATURDAY - SUNDAY13-14 Jun 2020

Haemodynamic Echocardiography Assessment in Real Time (iHeartScan™)

Day 1: 8:30am - 5:00pm

Day 2: 9:00am - 2:30pm

Workshop Information - Payment - Recommended Reading

Tuesday16 Jun 2020

FCU Transoesophageal Echocardiography (TOE)

9:00am - 12:00pm

Workshop Information - Payment - Recommended Reading

Thursday18 Jun 2020

FCU Transoesophageal Echocardiography (TOE) Advanced

9:00am - 12:00pm

Workshop Information - Payment - Recommended Reading

Friday10 Jul 2020

FCU Peri-Arrest

9:00am - 12:00pm

Workshop Information - Payment - Recommended Reading

Thursday16 Jul 2020

FCU Transthoracic Echocardiography (TTE)

9:00am - 12:00pm

Workshop Information - Payment - Recommended Reading

SATURDAY - SUNDAY 1-2 Aug 2020

Haemodynamic Echocardiography Assessment in Real Time Advanced (iHeartScan™ Advanced)

Day 1: 8:30am - 5:00pm

Day 2: 9:00am - 2:30pm

Workshop Information - Payment - Recommended Reading

Thursday13 Aug 2020

FCU Transthoracic Echocardiography (TTE) Advanced

9:00am - 12:00pm

Workshop Information - Payment - Recommended Reading

Thursday27 Aug 2020

FCU Transoesophageal Echocardiography (TOE)

9:00am - 12:00pm

Workshop Information - Payment - Recommended Reading

SATURDAY - SUNDAY 12-13 Sep 2020

Haemodynamic Echocardiography Assessment in Real Time (iHeartScan™)

Day 1: 8:30am - 5:00pm

Day 2: 9:00am - 2:30pm

Workshop Information - Payment - Recommended Reading

Thursday24 Sep 2020

FCU Transoesophageal Echocardiography (TOE) Advanced

9:00am - 12:00pm

Workshop Information - Payment - Recommended Reading

Friday2 Oct 2020

FCU Peri-Arrest

9:00am - 12:00pm

Workshop Information - Payment - Recommended Reading

Tuesday13 Oct 2020

FCU Peri-Arrest

9:00am - 12:00pm

Workshop Information - Payment - Recommended Reading

Thursday22 Oct 2020

FUSE Guided Vascular Access

9:00am - 12:00pm

Workshop Information - Payment - Recommended Reading

Thursday5 Nov 2020

FUSE Guided Vascular Access

9:00am - 12:00pm

Workshop Information - Payment - Recommended Reading

SATURDAY - SUNDAY 21-22 Nov 2020

Haemodynamic Echocardiography Assessment in Real Time (iHeartScan™)

Day 1: 8:30am - 5:00pm

Day 2: 9:00am - 2:30pm

Workshop Information - Payment - Recommended Reading

Thursday19 Nov 2020

NEW Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) Ultrasound

9:00am - 12:00pm

Workshop Information - Payment

Thursday3 Dec 2020

Ultrasound Guided Peripheral Venous Access

9:00am - 12:00pm

Workshop Information - Payment - Recommended Reading

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A: Level 6, Centre for Medical Research (entrance 5), Royal Parade, Parkville VIC 3050

P: (03) 9035 8118 | E: mobile-learning@unimelb.edu.au

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Research Overview

UEG comprises of academics, including Prof Alistair Royse (Cardiothoracic surgeon, Deputy Director of Surgery), Prof Colin Royse (Anaesthetist) and Dr David Canty (Anaesthetist, Senior Lecturer), who supervise higher research degree students, undergraduate medical students performing research projects, and post-graduated clinicians pursuing active research and education projects.

Research themes include a wide range of ultrasound including transoesophageal echocardiography for cardiac surgery, clinical point of care diagnostic ultrasound of heart, lungs, abdomen, vascular, invasive procedures, and new techniques. Other active areas of research include cardiac surgery, cardiothoracic anaesthesia, postoperative quality of recovery in all types of surgery, and medical education.

Further Information

History

The Ultrasound Education Group (UEG) was founded in 2004 at the University of Melbourne's Department of Surgery by Professors Alistair and Colin Royse. With advancement in recent technology, Portable Ultrasound Machine will be ubiquitous and affordable for professionals across different areas of healthcare industry in the near future.

Our mission is to equip holistic knowledge for medical practitioners to perform Point-of-Care Ultrasound Diagnosis. By combining eLearning with hands-on simulator workshops and and live-model practices, delivered by world-renowned experts in the field, we open the Pathway to Ultrasound Future for all healthcare professionals around the world.

The first course created was the Postgraduate Diploma of Perioperative and Critical Care Echocardiography. Over time this has expanded to the current portfolio which includes Graduate Certificate, Diploma and Master of Clinical Ultrasound. The iHeartScan and iHeartScan Advanced workshops were also developed, and more recently the Focused Ultrasound Simulator Education TTE, TOE, Peri-Arrest, Vascular and Lung and Gastric courses which integrate eLearning with simulators to reinforce practical components.

Our Mobile Learning Platform can be accessed, anytime, anywhere, on nearly any device!

Impact

In Australia, there are roughly 6500 anaesthetists and intensive care physicians. Over 2500 students have graduated from our award courses, and over 3000 have completed one of our workshops or getting started packages. To put this in perspective, we believe we have trained approximately 40% of the entire pool of anaesthetists and intensive care physicians in Australia.

Testimonial

The course has been so useful in fact the other day I was reading a tutorial then when at work the same scenario occurred and I was able to directly save a life because of that knowledge. Very grateful, thank you.

Anaesthetist

From a MBBS, MRCP (UK), FANZCA, Anaesthetics

With regards to the iHEART scan; 'An accessible, informative and hugely relevant workshop. Highly recommended
From an Anaesthetics Registrar

I have found the Diploma course to be excellent preparation for a career in this field and well recognised by all my peers. The content and presentation of the course material is excellent and provides an in-depth knowledge of echocardiography and its clinical application. I would thoroughly recommend it to anyone who is interested in echocardiography from a critical care background.
From a Cardiologist

The courses are very well organized, professional and applicable in clinical ultrasound and echocardiography. Staff from Ultrasound Education Group of The University of Melbourne are very helpful
From an Anaesthesia Fellow

The course did a fabulous job of equipping me with the knowledge base I need in order to be competent and effective in echocardiography. I heartily recommend this for anyone who needs flexibility of correspondence combined with the authority of a qualification from a respected institution

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How do I get my login details?

I'm seeing "There was a problem while contacting the server. Please try again later". What can I do?

The app is crashing or the app/web browser is constantly asking me to login.

CME and CPD accreditation guide

Graduate Courses in Clinical Ultrasound

Simulator Courses
Focused Ultrasound Simulator Education (FUSE) and Focused Cardiac Ultrasound (FCU)

Hands on Workshops
iHeartScan (Haemodynamic Echocardiography Assessment in Real Time)

Continuing Professional Development
Short Courses

Micro Courses

Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences

2020 Ultrasound Workshop Schedule

Brochure

Contact Us

Office Direction

Headquarter

Research Overview

History

Impact

Testimonial

Featured

Accreditation Bodies

Melbourne Medical School

Our Focus

Latest News

Our Movers and Shakers

PREVIOUS NEWSLETTERS

Frequently Asked Questions

Recognition for Prior Learning

Study Portal

FAQ

How do I get my login details?

I'm seeing "There was a problem while contacting the server. Please try again later". What can I do?

The app is crashing or the app/web browser is constantly asking me to login.

CME and CPD accreditation guide

Graduate Courses in Clinical Ultrasound

Simulator CoursesFocused Ultrasound Simulator Education (FUSE) and Focused Cardiac Ultrasound (FCU)

Hands on WorkshopsiHeartScan (Haemodynamic Echocardiography Assessment in Real Time)

Continuing Professional DevelopmentShort Courses

Micro Courses

Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences

2020 Ultrasound Workshop Schedule

Brochure

Contact Us

Office Direction

Headquarter

Research Overview

History

Impact

Testimonial

Featured

Accreditation Bodies

Simulator Courses
Focused Ultrasound Simulator Education (FUSE) and Focused Cardiac Ultrasound (FCU)

Hands on Workshops
iHeartScan (Haemodynamic Echocardiography Assessment in Real Time)

Continuing Professional Development
Short Courses