BASIC VASCULAR ULTRASOUND WORKSHOP
Friday 25th & Saturday 26th October 2024
Venue:
Anatomy Lab
Department of Medical Imaging & Anatomy, Pasifika Campus, CMNHS, FNU
The Basic Vascular Ultrasound workshop for 2024 was held at the Fiji WFUMB CoE on the 25-26th October. We received Expressions of Interest (EoI) from 41 Medical Imaging Technologists plus 12 EoI from non-eligible applicants, eg doctors or domiciled from outside the Pacific region with 22 applicants selected to attend the workshop.
The workshop covered several topics including Doppler physics optimisation, Aorta, DVT- Leg, DVT-Arm, Carotids, Reporting and Image Review. The programme delivered 3.5 hours of didactic learning and 7 hours of hands-on scanning time for the participants to learn and finesse the ultrasound techniques. This high piratical competent is aimed at ensuring the participants returned to their workplace comfortable with the new techniques.
A thread through all the workshops for the last few years is the lack of models to image resulting in the participants taking turns as models. Although improved at this workshop due to the undergraduate students volunteering to come along, many male attendees had to fill the vacant model slots giving them less hands on scanning time. Consideration should be given to paying models a small fee to encourage recruitment. The scanning models should be normal models rather than patients attending requesting an ultrasound report. The tutors do not have registration in Fiji which is a clinical risk for them and the WFUMB CoE.
The FNU Media team attended and featured the workshop on the FNU Facebook page which raised the profile of the WFUMB CoE and the support from the FNU medical imaging team.
Informal feedback indicated the attendees were happy with the content and the delivery of the workshop. Formal feedback to follow. The Workshop was well supported from the team at PISUM and Fiji National University and we are beginning to plan for the first workshop in 2025.
We thank the team for the support at this workshop and throughout the year.
