A Case-based Approach to Teaching Clinical Ultrasound Applications to Junior Medical Students at the Wayne State University School of Medicine (WSUSOM)

David Amponsah

Wayne State University School of Medicine

David Amponsah MD, RDCS, is the Director of Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Education and Fellowship at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, MI. He is also an Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Wayne State University School of Medicine (WSUSOM). He has been involved in ultrasound education since 2000, and has developed a longitudinal ultrasound curriculum together with Scott A. Dulchavsky MD, PhD, which has been successfully incorporated into the medical school curricula at WSUSOM since 2006. He received his undergraduate degree in Biochemistry at UCLA, and a medical degree at the University of Illinois. He completed his emergency medicine residency training at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, where he also works as senior staff physician.

Abstract

Abstract: Background: A curriculum for teaching clinical ultrasound applications to 3rd year medical students at the WSUSOM was first introduced in 2009. This is part of the longitudinal ultrasound curriculum developed at the... [ view full abstract ]

Authors

  1. David Amponsah (Wayne State University School of Medicine)
  2. Allison Noesekabel (Wayne State University School of Medicine)
  3. Edmond Younes (Wayne State University School of Medicine)

Topic Area

Use of ultrasound in Undergraduate Medical Education

Session

B05 » Oral Presentation 4: Ultrasound in Undergraduate Medical Education (15:00 - Friday, 23rd September, TTU SUB / Soapsuds)