EDE Course participants complete boot camp training
Channel: RhPAP
Date: 2019-03-06

After four days of intensive training, 20 rural physicians are well prepared to use their newly-honed bedside ultrasound skills in the real world. 
RhPAP sponsored another two-day boot camp-style training course on Feb. 1 and 2 in the southern Alberta community of Claresholm – a follow-up to the first two-day session in October 2018.Doctors from a number of rural Alberta communities—Banff, Cardston, Claresholm, Crowsnest Pass, Lethbridge, Milk River, Pincher Creek, Smoky Lake, Sundre, and Vulcan—joined for either one or both of the days.
The first RhPAP-sponsored session in October provided physicians, many of whom had never before picked up an ultrasound probe, with the opportunity to learn how to bring clear images onto the screen in both classroom-style instruction and hands-on training.
Between then and now, the physicians were able to bring their skills back to their own communities and practice, before returning to the second session to log 50 supervised scans to complete their log books, and qualify for Canadian Point of Care Ultrasound Society (CPoCUS) certification.
Video by Alicia Fox / RhPAP