Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship

This is a one year emergency ultrasound fellowship training program position. The successful candidate will be a recent graduate of an accredited emergency medicine residency program who wishes to pursue a career in emergency ultrasound. Harbor-UCLA Medical Center is a Level I trauma center in Los Angeles County, California and has a highly-regarded and fully-accredited emergency medicine residency training program.

The fellowship director is Michael Peterson, MD, FAAEM, an emergency physician with 10 years experience in performing emergency ultrasounds and the developer of the Emergency Ultrasound Training Program at Texas Tech University in El Paso, Texas, is the Director of the Emergency Ultrasound program at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.

The Emergency Department has two dedicated state-of-the-art ultrasound machines which have both doppler and endovaginal capability. The Department of Emergency Medicine looks to establish a leadership role in training and development of this important and exciting new emergency tool.

The goals of the fellowship program are to:

1. Become an expert emergency sonographer
2. Develop ultrasound teaching skills
3. Be capable of directing an emergency ultrasound program
4. Contribute to the emergency ultrasound knowledge base
5. Be familiar with national emergency ultrasound politics
6. Become familiar with academic emergency medicine as a career

The curriculum will be based on the ACEP Ultrasound Fellowship Guidelines

Interested parties should contact Dr Peterson directly at (310) 222-6746 or peterson@emedharbor.edu
Please include a curriculum vitae as an electronic attachment to an email, along with names and telephone numbers for three references. We would appreciate your bringing this announcement to the attention of any prospective candidates.