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Next course date:
Oct 4-5, 2025
New Westminster, BC
Registration coming soon!
Aimed at practicing acute care physicians, the UBC IM POCUS Basics Course is a 1 or 2-day hands-on workshop focusing on high-yield basic POCUS techniques. The course features a flipped classroom approach to maximize hands-on-probe time, a group of expert clinician faculty, and a carefully crafted curriculum.
The course is designed to equip participants with the skills and knowledge necessary to incorporate basic POCUS into their routine practice, including assessment of common clinical problems:
The mythical “volume status”
Undifferentiated hypoxia and hypotension
Acute kidney injury and urinary retention
Presence of abdominal free fluid
Course content
Vascular ultrasound: IVC and JVP
Lung ultrasound
Abdominal ultrasound: kidneys, bladder, and free fluid
Basic cardiac ultrasound
Pearls, pitfalls, and case-based integration
Faculty
Dr. Shane Arishenkoff
Dr. Barry Chan
Dr. Michael Cheung
Dr. Terry Chu
Dr. Stefany Morrison
Dr. Katie Wiskar
