EM Ultrasound Clerkship

Welcome Student Rotators!

Say Hello to our Ultrasound Faculty

  • Omar Amr, MD

    ULTRASOUND CO-DIRECTOR

  • Sahiba Chandel, MD

    ULTRASOUND CO-DIRECTOR

  • Ting Xu Tan, MD

    US FELLOWSHIP CO-DIRECTOR

  • Kandria Ledesma, MD

    US FELLOWSHIP CO-DIRECTOR

  • Emily O'Donnell, MD

    ULTRASOUND CORE FACULTY

Meet our Ultrasound Fellow,
Katya Trousset

I am the US fellow as well as a clinical faculty/attending. My job is to make you an ultrasound Jedi! You will work with me clinically as an attending, as well as doing ultrasound dedicated shifts during intern year. I also help run the advanced ultrasound elective that can be taken during PGY2/3. I am happy to meet with students/residents to practice scanning anytime that our schedules align.

One of my main goals this year is…

MS4 Ultrasound Elective

For ANY student with interest in learning about ultrasound!

What We Offer

    • 4-week ultrasound rotation

      • The rotation may be extended or shortened if given early notice and if approved by the ultrasound directors

    • Up to 16 shifts divided between clinical and teaching shifts with one of the ultrasound faculty and/or fellow

    • Attend online and classroom Ultrasound didactics

    • Attend weekly EM Residency didactics - encouraged, but not mandatory

    • Participate in the monthly journal club

    • Hands-on sessions with simulation models and live models

    • Performed at least 75 scans during the rotation

    • Focused assessment with sonography in Trauma

    • Abdominal Aortic aneurysm screening/evaluation

    • Focused transthoracic echocardiography

    • Inferior Vena cava collapsibility index

    • Pneumothorax screening

    • Lung consolidation and pleural effusion screening/evaluation

    • RUQ screening

    • Transabdominal intrauterine/ectopic pregnancy evaluation

    • Nephrolithiasis screening/evaluation

    • Ocular evaluation for ocular emergency and intracranial hypertension

MS3 Longitudinal Ultrasound Elective

In partnership with Touro University, California

This is an integrated US curriculum for our Touro medical students assigned to St. Joseph’s on clerkships while in the 3rd year throughout rotations in the hospital.

Participants engage in didactic lectures, journal club sessions, hands-on training, teaching and patient-modeling activities, and complete a final project.

A multimodal instructional assessment approach ensures that ultrasound training yields experience with cognitive, behavioral, and constructive learning components. 

The third-year medical student program predominately addresses ultrasound image interpretation compared with a focus on ultrasound acquisition within first and second-year programs. Graduated experience in focused ultrasound allows the third-year medical student to perform focused ultrasonography under faculty supervision during clinical rotations across a 10- month Block schedule.

How to Apply

Please apply via Clinician Nexus.

In order to apply, you will need to upload:

  • Current CV

  • Letter letting us know what you hope to get out of the EM Ultrasound rotation

  • USMLE/COMLEX scores